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ALUMNAE NEWS

SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE

1931-1932
DECEMBER

SWEET BRIAR, VIRGINIA

PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

Volume I Number i

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Editor — Vivien.xe Barkalow Breckenridge. '18

Table of Contents

Foreword — 2

Editorials 3

Ox A Change of Style — 4

Sweet Brl\r Day — 5

President Glass' Chapel Talks on Worship 7

Alumnae Funds 12

A .\ew Basis of Institutional Loyalty 17

Sweet Briar from the Air 18

Olr Selective Admissions 19

Whither Modern Learning 23

From Voir Treasurer 24

A Prediction from the University of Chicago 24

The Lnited States and the World Court 25

The Boxwood Circle at Sweet Briar 36

Dance Program 37

Campus Life 38

Christmas and the Alumnae Office 41

Class Personals _ 42

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FOREWORD

THE Sweet Briar Alumnae Association takes
great pleasure in welcoming the adver-
tisers in this, our first issue to carry " ads." Will
you help us, our advertisers, and yourselves, by
purchasing whenever possible, through the firms
advertising with us ?

EDITORIALS

Small Colleges

WAS it not highly gratifying that
President Hoover and a group of
authorities on education recently
appealed to the nation for increased sup-
port for the six hundred small liberal arts
colleges of the land? Those of you who
heard the speakers over the radio must have
felt that Sweet Briar was surely among
those numbered. It was encouraging to
have recognition from these men that ef-
ficiencv does not necessarily lie in bigness,
nor inefficiency in smallness, that the small
liberal arts college is doing a service in
maintaining fine traditions and equalizing
cultural opportunities. These speakers
voiced the danger that the small colleges
are being overlooked by wealthy men in-
clined to be philanthropic while millions
are piled upon millions already possessed
by the great universities.

President Hoover said:

"I am glad to express appreciation of
the service of the liberal arts college, that
is, the small college. I do this the more
freely because of the more than six hun-
dred such institutions in our land, most of
them have little, if any, endowment or
state support. In these times of trends
toward larger units the difficulties of the
unsupported small college multiply, which
make their successful operations less hope-
ful, and. in iiiaiiv cases, a desperate strug-
glc.

"The importaiil place which these insti-
tutions hold in our system of education
renders their sujiport of the utmost im-
portance. \\ luilever be tiie magnificent
services of liie larger and highh special-
ized universities the liberal arts college
places an emphasis upon personal contacts
of teacher and sludenl which render them
a vital pari of onr rdiicalidiial s\stcm.

"A primary purpose of education is a
product of high character and noble ideals,
which regard moral and spiritual qualities
superior to mere material things, without
which anv purelv economic system would
collapse.

"Throughout our history these colleges
have been and are now the seed beds of
leadership. They have contributed a large
part to the presence in our land of nearly
two million college trained men and wom-
en. Theirs is a great honor roll of men
and women in our nation. The finest tra-
ditions of our country are rooted in their
associations and their inspiration.

"The disadvantage of the small college
is obvious. The dramatic element in edu-
cation does not play a great part in its
activities. It must remain content with
the character of service it renders to the
individual man and woman and to the pub-
lic weal. In the last analysis the chief
service to higher education in our country
must rest not with the few highly endowed
universities but, in large degree, with the
more than six hundred smaller colleges for
whose future welfare I am now speaking.

"It is through them that each state and
section must maintain ample cultural op-
portunities for the youth within reasonable
distance from their homes and in circum-
stances fitted to the needs of each com-
munit\ and its people.

"That service for the \outh is a guarantee
iif c(|nalil\ of cultural opportunilv and
a bulwark for the spiritual life of the
generation in which our children will have
to live, a ser\iie which I >incerelv com-
mend."

\\ r h(i|if that many ears were open to ihc
|ilca llial came from ihc White House.

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Your Obligations as Readers

YOLR Altimnae office announces with
the greatest pride and keenest in-
terest the new policy of its alumnae
publications. The November Bulletin
gave you a sample of the change in
size, type, and style, but this issue
gives to you further details of the
radical changes, ^ou may have noticed
our own mailing permit as announced on
the title page. If not, it says that you will
have an Alumnae News sent to you in
March, June, September, and December.
This will give vou two more numbers than
before. The June number will enable you
to have commencement news almost before
the campus is cleared of students and
before those of you who have returned
for reunions have arrived back home. The
December number will bring you news of
plans for Sweet Briar Day, together with
additional campus news and feature arti-
cles. Another new feature that you will
notice at once is advertisements. We wel-
come this contact with the business world.
Your Editor fully recognizes her obliga-
tion to give college news in a pithy, concise
way and to represent alumnae opinion and
aspirations. We want it worthy of dis-

cussion. We intend to give the Alumnae
News character and personality. Even ad-
verse criticism is better than apathy; a
publication that is not talked about is dead.
It is our ambition to present to you. four
times a year, thoughtful discussion of our
college affairs as an educational institution,
news of the campus life together with
special articles covering subjects of com-
mon interest to all alumnae. Always there
will be the Class Personals. Pictures and
illustrations will be used just as much as
our limited funds allow.

Naturally in an alumnae body the size
of Sweet Briar's there will be many differ-
ent opinions and tastes. We should like
to have them all. There are bound to be
constructive ideas among the older alum-
nae who are so solid in their support of
the college, and among the younger al-
umnae who are so enthusiastic and lately
familiar with its conditions. We urge the
thoughtful attention of all who read this
to our plea for assistance. Let us have
the benefit of your opinion. We cannot
imagine it, so we ask vou to write to the
Editor and tell her.

Onman and as wide as
the spread of conscious human beings, and
it developed into an art to be achieved by
practice as early, if not earlier, than any
art we know. But we acknowledge our-
selves as followers of Jesus, however im-
perfectly we follow him, and so I choose
an account of his early followers in their
group worship instead of a group of wor-
shippers of Isis.

"In the first passage we see the informal
group that turns to worship in the face of
a problem, the problem of perpetuating
the band and filling Judas' place. It is
this kind of group worship that takes place
when we open a meeting with prayer, or in
the devotions of the Y. W. cabinet, or any

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small group where the sense of a corporate
will and a corporate aspiration is compara-
tively easy to attain. The great gain of
such group worship is the sense of strength
that comes from sharing plans and pur-
poses, and sharing in a realization that it
is possible to get God's help for the group
and for its work. It puts the power of God
into the enterprise. One thinks of the
qualities of God that make these clumsy
workers able to accomplish. One meas-
ures oneself and the group, in ignorance
of how to proceed against a vision of God's
wisdom, in weakness against his sustained
power, in indifference against his brooding
love, and sets about reconstructing self and
group by the cultivation of these qualities.
When this really happens in a group that
group has attained worship and there is no
one who can doubt its worth. That it can
and does happen we equally know, but we
know too that it can fail to happen for any
individual who cannot tune in and it can-
not fail for a single individual without
making the group worship just that much
less complete. She has missed what she
might have had and the group has missed
that fraction of its power.

"Even in so small a group held together
by a common purpose we can see how
heavy is the burden of the leader to find the
right means of arousing in each individual
the thoughts and impulses that will unite
into such group worship, and it is not
conceivable that even the most gifted
should accomplish it without the active co-
operation of the other members of the
group. Clearly there is something to be
striven for and it is only, perhaps, by ex-
periencing real group worship that one is
convinced how worth-while the striving is.
Certainly it bears not much weight when
one who has never succeeded in achieving
it says, 'What's the use?.'

"Now there is another form of group
worship foreshadowed in the verses, "And
the multitude of them that believed were
of one heart and one soul.' Here we have
the large group at the moment when they
have achiexed this unit\. 'And ihev weie
filled with the Holy (rliost." the preredins;
verse states. Peter and John had come
back to their own company after being dis-
missed and charged not to teach again in
the temple, and told them all that had licc-i

said; and the group had lifted up their
voices widi one accord and said, 'Lord,
Thou art God. which hast made heaven and
earth and the seas and all that in them
is:' and they had prayed — 'Grant unto thy
ser\'ants that v/ith all boldness they may
speak thy word.'

"If there was a multitude we can surely
posit a group of diversified mood, back-
ground, aims, will, such as we gather in
for our more formal hours of worship. If
we are to attain to a degree of corporate
worship in our larger gatherings, formal,
at a set time, we must recognize all this
diversity of personalities and circumstances
and look for corrunon bonds of broader
hold than the unif)dng purpose of the
small group. Too, we must give more
time, more different appeals to turn the
thoughts and the emotions of all the per-
sons of the group into, not uniform, but
harmonious experiences of worship, which
result in corporal worship. Some find the
music, some the sentences, some the things
that are read, some the things that are said,
enable them to realize worship, and we in-
dividually must have a certain calm pa-
tience with the things that may not attain
for us but will for our neighbors. It is a
true paradox that we must know the isola-
tion that is ours in a crowd to alfaiu to the
corporate worship that may be ours in a
group. The worship is not complete until
it has touched individuallv each person
there, but it is most apt to do this on our
side that has most in common with every-
body else.

"1 dare not say for another the best w'ay
to achieve this but I can poini out Iiow a
measure of success has been rrached for
so many people that it is reasonalile to pre-
suppose that it is good. Wi sing or talk of
the nature ard the attributes of God — we
expose ourselves to the Divine — we confess
our own divergence from God's essence and
God's will, we measure and dia'.'nose our-
selves, we ask for grac3 in reconstructing
ourselves — and then we do this in dillerent
form again — I remember we are many and
diversified I — ard however often it is done,
pro\ ided we can control our thoughts on
the nialtcr in linnd. we are arriving at new
rich'os of coininu'ioi'.

"I ha\r ncil >;ii(l anything of lornis and
lilnruN lull I Iki\c said thiniis thai nu<j:ht

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to enable you to evaluate these for what
they are worth. I am better able to get a
personal realization of corporate worship
under a form that 1 know well enough to
vary my own content under it as the mood
and circumstances may require, than I am
in following a new thing on which I must
concentrate and may find especially dif-
ficult to make fit my need, but there is
much to guard against in heedless follow-
ing of liturgy and many a time the new-
can capture and vivify thought immediate-
ly. Remembering the aims, to realize per-
sonally and to feel the kinship of the group
by our own efforts — and nought is to be
had without them — we can attain a kind
and quality of worship together that is dif-
ferent from what we can attain alone, and
worth much in the familj- of God's chil-
dren."

The fourth and last talk of the series was
on "Private Worship," and ran thus:

"I have spoken of private worship as the
most difficult form of worship and I think
its difficulty lies in the fact that a person
must by his own wisdom and out of his
own resources simimon the stimulus to
worship: bring before his mind the attri-
butes of God and the pictures of Jesus that
he can at that stage of his experience and
in the given circumtances think upon with
vividness, sincerity and understanding; do
for himself unaided by aught said or seen
the diagnosis of self; and determine upon
methods of self-reconstruction that will en-
able him to erow into greater capability in
practicing the presence of God. We can all
think back to the time, and for some of us
it is not so far back either, when our con-
ception of our private worship was to 'sav
our prayers' in the quite literal meaning
of those words, or to pray even spontan-
eously in the form of asking for things, or
guidance or strength, and when that had
been done our communion with God was at
an end. That done reverently and in sin-
cerity is certainly worship but I am in-
clined to think that it is verily but the first
step and hardly catches a gimpse. much
less exhausts the possibilities, of personal
worship.

"Of course private, personal ivjrship is
the kind that one person dares least to tell
another person how 'o do. Its ways are
manifold and multitudinous and it can take

all forms from prayer that is the soul's sin-
cere desire miexpressed, to hours of medi-
tation, logical reasoning, concentrated de-
termination, outbursts of joy and praise,
or a deep and silent welling-up of strength
and peace in the heart. One may attain
it anywhere, at any time, but that does not
mean that it is not more easily attained
under some circumstances than under
others, and the circumstances most congen-
ial to its achievement are quiet and ceclus-
ion, at least in spirit if not in body. Con-
ceivably you could talk over your and his
most intimate concerns with your father
in the Grand Central Station, but not many
of you would find it easy to do. Con-
ceivably, we could worship God in the
hallway of Gray, but no one of us would
find it easy. And if worship is to be the
conscious cultivation of coming into ever
better and more extensive contact with the
great reality, with the power, beauty, and
love of God. we all see that we must get
what aid we can from outward quiet and
inward peace for the control of our shift-
ing and unstable minds.

"When life has been rich with experience
and a facility has been acquired in focus-
ing one's thoughts on God, a person can
doubtless summon by himself material that
will serve to keep open communion be-
tween himself and God. but certainly for us
who have not attained to such a state, the
experience of others, wiser explanations
and elucidations than we are ourselves
capable of. the compelling picture of the
power of God say, in so vivid a form that
we can see what it means to us in our own
lives, will often, if not always, ha- e to be
the starting point of our personal commun-
ion. Of course this is not true, even in our
cases, of our high, but all too few. mo-
ments of insight and exaltation. We do be-
come, however, more capable of such mo-
ments the more we have cultivated com-
munion, and even the saints who were great
mystics seem never to have dispensed with
any possible aids for their own worship.
A quiet spot, self-control, something to
start one's thoughts about God we need and
then the measuring of ourself and the im-
pulse toward the future and the determina-
tion to make that impulse bear fruit and
so establish itself. For us here at college
quiet spots must be definitely sought in
room, chapel, or the out-of-doors. Stim-

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ulation for our thoughts of God ought to
be plentiful in the realm of ideas, in which
we spend so much of our time, in poem,
in book, in outdoor beauty, in public
events, in the reactions of self and friends
to daily life. These we can take and bj"

controlled thought, and released emotions
we can practice, if we will, ever closer
communion with God, but our attainment
of it will be no accident, onlv a steady
mastery at a cost as great as that with
which the musician buys his mastery.

The President at Her Desk

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Alumnae Funds

How to educate and why, is a ques-
tion agitating many of our thinkers
these days. One may read in the
public prints almost anything he wants to
about mass education, co-education, the
inner college, the outer urge, the new free-
dom, the old bondage. The radicals talk
learnedly of the new education; the con-
servatives say it's old stuff with new names.

Uppermost, however, in the minds of a
great number of Alumnae Associations to-
day is the Alumnae Fund. Alumnae Secre-
taries are constantly asking each other
about the mechanical part of the Fund. Is
it practical? Did it appeal to the majority
of alumnae? And so on with the many
questions that are of vital interest to every
Alumnae Office. Perhaps in the rush and
anxiety of obtaining this information for
our respective offices we are prone to for-
get the alumnae who are to make this Fund
possible. Many of our own Sweet Briar
alumnae have asked from time to time,
"What is an Alumnae Fund?" The fol-
lowing articles are reprinted that you may
be well informed on die latest movement
of Alumnae Organizations. They answer
quite fully what an Alumnae Fund means
to the colleges where they exist. These
articles are, however, reprinted merely with
the idea that always we want our own
Sweet Briar girls to be abreast of the
times and have some general knowledge of
this subject that is the right of every
"Alumnae Minded" person.

The following article was presented by
Miss Jennie Loyall, Alumnae Secretary of
Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, at the
conference of the American Alumni Coun-
cil held last spring in Atlanta.

The Alumni Fund is one of the newest
and most highly favored movements in
Alumni work. In 1923 there were six col-
leges and universities with active funds,
six with dormant ones and nine that were
planning to begm funds. In 1925 at Yale
University, twenty-five fund agents met to
organize an association. In 1927 when
they held a joint session at the University
of North Carolina with the Association of
Alumni Secretaries and Alumni Magazines
to merge into one organization, the Asso-

ciation of Alumni Funds was then a bodv
of seventy-six members. Today eighty-nine
members of the American Alumni Council
hold type B membership, signifying that
they are sponsoring alumni funds. Of
these the \ ale Alumni fund is the mother
of all, founded in 1890 and hence is forty
years old: Cornell's fund is twenty-three
years old; Dartmouth's sixteen; Columbia's
ten, and Harvard's six. Michigan State has
begun hers this year. Bowdoin has recei/t-
ly discovered that as early as 1869 she had
a fund which was quite successful for some
years before its death.

At the time of the merging of the three
organizations in 1927 there were only five
women's colleges who reported Alimmae
Funds. They were Smith College whose
fund was established in 1912, Vassar and
Wellesley whose funds were established in
1920; Mt. Holyoke's established in 1923,
and that of Western Reserve. At that time
four of these five funds were practically
set aside for war or endowment campaigns;
the Smith fund was revived in 1928, Mt.
Holyoke established a separate office for
theirs in 1923, and Wellsley began an ac-
tive fund educational campaign by visits
to their local clubs in 1927.

The proved successes of the fund, both
old and new, demand attention and confi-
dence. Yale leads in the amount con-
tributed; a most striking instance being in
1927 when her alumni contributing also
to her $20,000,000 endowment campaign,
gave in all $615,394 to her fund; of this
amount $164,311 came from non-reunion
classes and was used for budget deficit.
Cornell last year initiated a unique plan,
modelled after the Roll Call of the Red
Cross, called the Roll Call of the Cornell
Alumni, her ^oal being first place among
American colleges in the number of donors
to the fund. They attained this goal when
their contributing alumni for the year
reached over 10,000. The amount raised
was $138,000.

Harvard's fund in the five years of its
existence has received $638,000, from 9,-
238 contributors. The total amount con-
tributed to Dartmouth's is $1,120,010. The
number of contributors has increased from

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553 to 5,683. The fund at Amherst in
eight years has increased from S14-,9o3 to
§253,966, and from 1,043 to 2,693 con-
tributors. The Alumni of Worcester Poly-
technecnic Institute have contributed to
their fund §91.102 in five years. In 1929,
3,460 of Bryn Mawr's alumnae contributed
S28,155. Forty-one per cent of Smidi"s
Alumnae contributed 870.000 in 1929.
Radcliffe initiated her fund two jears ago
in her 50th anniversary year and received
$34,000 from 2,600 donors; additional
gifts already in class treasuries increased
the total amount the first year to 852,000.

"Following the intense high pressure,
oftentimes unfortunate, campaigns for mil-
lions engendered by the war time campaign
method, this fund "to which many men and
women annually gave small amounts which
make a large total" has been welcomed
with relief by the go-getter, the giver and
the beneficiary.

"In the words of President Little of the
University of Michigan, "Recently we have
come to the recognition of a new type of
support, — steady giving, non-emotional,
rational, that is permanent and relatively
inexpensive, the one sound, sane type of
support, whether it be financial, or spirit-
ual, moral, intellectual. It is support that
is given on the basis of steady donations,
a permanent type of self-respecting sup-
port"

"At the 1926 meeting of the Association
of Alumni Funds the definition agreed
upon was: "The Alumni Fund is a con-
tinuing agency devoted to the securing of
annual gifts for the current expenses of the
university or college." The fund today
needs a broader description. Perhaps Har-
vard's more recent generalization is better:
"a general perpetual fund to which the
alumni contribute annually according to
their individual means." Tlie general prin-
ciple upon which it works is that small
gifts given regularly each year from many
individuals equals the annual interest de-
rived from one big gift from one benefac-
tor. If one well-to-do individual gives the
institution 850.000 invested at six per cent,
interest, it will ever after net the colleire
S3.000 > early. Hut if 1 .0(X) modestlv con-
ditioned individuals give an avcr.ige of S3
each every year, the college will net 83,000
yearly from their <Ti*^t also. The whole-
some effect of annual gifts easily afforded

and from many people is a renewed inter-
est and loyalty in the alma mater.

"The \ale plan has been used as an in-
spiration and model for otlier funds. \^ hile
no two funds are alike most of them in the
beginning followed hers. It is controlled
by a Board of Directors composed of 18
alumni appointed by the President of the
University with the Treasurer of the Uni-
versity serving as Treasurer of the Fund.
These Directors meet twice yearly: in No-
vember, to announce the year's program,
and in June to consider results. They ap-
point the class agents. The gifts from Re-
union classes are set aside as permanent
endowment, the interest only being used
while the entire gift of non-reunion classes
is used as a flexible income for the Lniver-
sity. The amount to be raised each year is
that needed to balance the budget of the
University and is allotted by quota to the
non-reunion classes.

"It is interesting to compare the general
plan of the Yale fimd to that of Bucknell's
which has been launched this year after
five years spent in considering funds in
general and in preparing the alumni for it.
Their magazine ajinounced it as "die most
important step in the history of the organ-
ized alumni of Bucknell University." It
is directed by the Alumni through the
Bucknell Alumni Fund Committee. Of this
committee four are members of the board
of trustees elected by the board for periods
of four years: three are elected by the
Alumni Council for terms of three years;
three ex-officio members, — the president of
the University, the president and the ex-
ecutive secretary of the Alumni Association.
The budget of the L niversity is placed at
the disposal of a committee so that they
can direct its use each year. It is the one
contribution of the year, absorbing dues
and magazine subscriptions. The class is
the main unit through which contributions
are solicited, though personal a|)peals are
made through the clubs in sectional con-
tests. No quotas are suggested.

"In general the older funds raise a fixed
amount determined by the need of the col-
lege for the year. This amount is distribu-
ted among the classes, the quotas being
determined by the number of living mem-
bers and their years since graduation, the
youngest classes being the smallest con-

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tributors. A definite portion is set aside
for endowment; the remainder is turned
over to the college without restriction to
use. Gifts to the Fund do not include dues
and magazine subscriptions.

"Some of the more recently established
funds use immediatel)" the entire amount
raised during the year. More and more
alumni are directing the Fimd to a defi-
nite use. Lehigh's goes to the cancelling
of the debt incurred in remodelling her
library. Vassar directs hers to her Gym-
nasium. The University of North Carolina
and Flora Stone Mather College are pro-
moting student loans and scholarships.
Now that the Wellesley alumni have com-
pleted their Zoology Building, they are
raising a Calkin's Memorial Fellowship for
visiting professors. Mt. Holyoke's project
conmiittee is this year giving each donor
the privilege of directing her gift to either
faculty salary or the library, or to an un-
designated fmid.

"At our previous conferences no means
of standardizing our methods of computing
percentages of donors or of expense has
been reached. In 1929 Harvard reported
20 per cent contributors; Yale and Cornell
reported 25 per cent; Dartmouth between
65 per cent and 70 per cent, though she
admits some optimistic method of comput-
ing and suggests 50 per cent as more ac-
curate. The University of North Carolina
received $40,000 from 2,000 contributors
at an expense of $5,500. Yale spent $20,-
658 operating expenses in 1928, and re-
ceived $139,426 from non-reunion classes.
Ohio Wesleyan estimates her operating ex-
penses at from 15 to 20 per cent; Worces-
ter at from 8 to 14 per cent.

"Most funds agree that the class is the
best unit of promotion with the success of
each class contribution depending upon the
interest and energy of the class agent.
Cornell, however, from the very beginning
of her Fund has obtained better results
through geographical representatives and
committees.

"A short intensive campaign is now con-
sidered most desirable. Some of them be-
gin in February and end in June. Part-
mouth's ideal is to have a two month's
campaign. The fund closes usually with
the fiscal year of the university, though
Harvard ends theirs with the calendar year.

The campaigns are planned months in ad-
vance very carefully, the planning begin-
ning in September for a campaign that
starts in I'ebruary. The general tendency
is toward onl)' one solicitation a year with
the contribution to the fund covering dues
and magazine subscription. Lehigh has an
agreement with the trustees that their
alumni cannot be solicited otherwise.

"At Columbia University is maintained
a depository of fund materials which was
started by the Association of Alumni Funds
and which contains thirty scrap-books of
material. We can receive encouragement
from reading the early records of some
of these most flourishing funds of today.
The number of contributors to the Yale
Fund its first year was 385. The Dart-
mouth Fund for eight years "was conducted
in a small way and only a small percentage
of alumni contributed," to quote their
secretary. It was reorganized in 1914 and
during its first year received $5,147.10 from
553 members; the class secretary covered
the whole class for a time before fund
agents were appointed.

"At the first meeting of Alumni secre-
taries held 18 years ago, Mr. Embree, of
Yale, said: "It would be absolutely im-
possible to conduct the University without
this income. It is a great influence in
getting money from large benefactors who
ask, 'What do your own graduates do?'
We say from 3000 to 4000 men give $100,-
000 yearly. Mrs. Sage's $600,000 and
Rockefeller's million can be traced to this
fund established by Yale Alumni."

"Dartmouth states that if it had not been
for the Alumni Fund the college would
have gone on the rocks four or five years
ago. Then came two gifts of $750,000
each, and a million doUfrs for the library.

"When this stage of prosperity has been
reached, the Secretary's troubles are not
over, they merely assume a diff^erent nature,
for then the alumnus thinks that his small
gift is unnecessary. He feels "Now that
Mr. Biltmore has given the college a mil-
lion this year, I'll keep my paltry ten. I'll
use it for myself; I'm tired of stewed
prunes for breakfast; I'll have frosty
morning peaches instead" or "I'll buy that
new snow shovel that I wanted all last
winter."

Alumnae News

"The pioneers in this movement have
already crossed this pitfall. They have
learned that the upkeep of big gifts is enor-
mous and usually unprovided for. Dart-
mouth's new library building meant an
increase in upkeep of S40,000. Northwest-
ern discovered that it cost §10,000 a year
merely to wash the windows of the hand-
some buildings on her new campus. So
that the reply in this case is, "Surely he
gave a million for that building, but the
old boy forgot to throw in a window
washer."

THE PLAN FOR THE MT. HOLYOKE
ALUMNAE

1. Every alumna shall subscribe yearly
any amount large or small, (SI a year is
welcomed) to be paid yearly, after notifi-
cation, on the first of April.

2. Every alumna shall send to the
Alumnae Secretary at any time names of
persons whom she thinks the college
might induce to become vearly subscribers.
If you prefer to approach these persons
yourself, do not send in their names.

3. Every graduating class shall be
asked to join the alumnae in making year-
ly subscriptions, and in inducing parents
and friends to subscribe to the Mount Hol-
yoke Alumnae Fund.

4. Every trustee shall endeavor to in-
terest persons to subscribe yearly to a
fund, to be called The Mount Holyoke Liv-
ins; Endowment Fund. This portion of the
Fund shall be entirely separate from the
Alumnae Fu^d. The immediate effort on
the part of the trustees is to secure $200,-
OOO to be used for the completion of var-
ious projects, such as the new hillside resi-
dence hall, increased fire protection and
electric lighting.

It is felt by the committee that a plan
of this sort would place no heavy burden
upon any one: that it would do away with
special appeals and various minor appeals,
and, if loyally supported, would yield a
substantial sum yearly that would, in addi-
tion to running properly the Alumnae Of-
fice, build up the material and intellectual
resources of the college.

Mount Holyoke also published statistics
of six of the Eastern Colleges for Women
that should be of interest to you:

HOW MANY ALUMNAE SUBSCRIBE TO
ALUMNAE FUNDS?

At Wellesley

45%

At Smith

42%

At Mount Holyoke

42%

At Radcliffe

40%

At Vassar

35%

At Bryn Mawr

19%

WHAT ARE THE AVERAGE YEARLY
SUBSCRIPTIONS?

At Bryn Mawr

$50.42

At Vassar

25.98

At Smith

17.22

At Radcliffe

12.45

At Wellesley

8.39

At Mount Holyoke

7.89

shall constitute voting

WELLESLEY'S FUND PLAN IS AS
FOLLOWS

1. Any annual payment to the Alumnae
Association shall be considered to include:
dues, magazine subscription, gift to fund,
reunion gift.

2. The amount of such payment shall
be voluntary, but an effort shall be made
to make it so far as possible commensur-
ate with the income of the payer as well as
in general accord with individual share in
Association budget.

3. Such annual payment, from graduate
or non-graduate
membership in the Association

4. The apportionment of the annual
amount thus raised shall be made in the
following order:

a. Budget for the recognized activi-
ties of the Association (such as office ex-
penses and salaries, committee budgets,
travelling expenses, printing, ,postage
the Horton-Hallowell Fellowship ) .

b. Printing and distribution of the
Alumnae Magazine.

c. The Alumnae Fund — to be used,
not as principal for endowment — but as
income to be spent annually by the Fund
Committee, with the approval of the Ex-
ecutive Board, on a gift or gifts to the
College. The gift or gifts being selected
from a list of immediate needs supplied
by the Trustees.

5. The Fund Committee shall consist
of the following:

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a. A Chairman, either a member of
the Executive Board or one in constant
touch with it.

b. A Publicity Chairman.

c. The Executive Secretary of the
Association.

One member of every Alumnae Class,
as a sub-committee.

BUCKNELL ALUMNI FUND ANSWERS
THE QUESTION

WHAT IS IT? The discovery, several
years ago, that there is in the heart of the
average alumnus a latent desire to help
his Alma Mater, led to the establishment
of Alumni Funds, and whereas Yale and
one or two other colleges were pioneering
in this field for some years, the movement
has been so successful that there are now
about one hundred Alumni Fund organi-
zations well established.

Many of the small colleges, as well as
the larger institutions, have found this
source of income of inestimable import-
ance. At Amherst, for example, the fund
has increased from $14,983 given by 1043
contributors in 1923 to $50,548 contributed
by 2758 alumni in 1929. St. Lawrence,
whose situation somewhat resembles that of
Bucknell, received the net amount of $18,-
325 from its fund in 1929, which was only
the second year of the fund's existence. So
rapid, in fact, has been the growth of this
method of giving to higher education that
last year these annual contributions ac-
counted for 15% of all the money given
to higher education by individuals in the
United States, though this method of giving
was almost unused a few years ago.

Annual giving differs widely from the
"endowment drives" of other years. The
Alumni Fund creates a "living endow-
ment." It is a fund created by the living
alumni for the needs of the College today.
The capital funds or endowment of the
College must be invested and only the in-
terest is available for current needs. Hence
every dollar given for endowment has ap-
proximately five cents of annual purchas-
ing power. The Alumni Fund, however,
may be used directly and, therefore, one
dollar so given has the buying power of
twenty dollars of endowment. The idea

of these funds is that instead of supplying
the endowment itself, the alumni supply
the interest. For example: the man who
desires to add $1000, to the endowment,
but who cannot do so, may give the annual
interest at 5%, or $50.00.

This type of fund also makes a par-
ticular appeal because it provides a med-
ium through which the alumnus of limited
financial means may to an extent commen-
surate with his year by year income, con-
tribute his bit in such a way that it, along
with the combined gifts of others, aggre-
gates a total which is of great practical
benefit.

Wliile Alumni Funds do not exist apart
from mone)f, experience in many colleges
shows decidedly that by-products of in-
creased interest in the College, and closer
contact of alumni with college affairs, are
quite as valuable as the financial return.
On the basis of a subtle principle in
human nature, alumni are far more deep-
ly attached to their college when they have
bestowed something upon it beside criti-
cism.

The Bucknell Alumni Fund is the result
of much investigation and study by the
General Alumni Association through com-
mittees, covering a period of several years.
In June, 1929 the plan was adopted by
the Alumni Council and in December, 1929
the Bucknell Alumni Fund was sanctioned
by the Board of Trustees. The Alumni
Fund is distinctly an alumni project, di-
rected to and by alumni. On the principle
that many small gifts equal a few very
large ones, the fund plans call for "Some-
thing from Everyone." The amount of
each yearly gift is left entirely to the judg-
ment of the individual donor.

^^H

A View of the Refectory Taken During the
First Year of the College

Alumnae News

A New Basis of Institutional Loyalty

By John D. McKee, Alumni Secretary
Wooster College, and Former President
of the American Alimini Council.

THE organized alumni movement in the
American college is entering its most
searching period. Until this time its
effort has been largely concerned with
social and financial relationships. But a
day of larger promise is looming — a day
of increasing educational interests. The
alumni associations which sense this trend
and interpret it correctly are assured of
much more than survival. They are prac-
tically certain to be of the greatest useful-
ness to their institutions, in fact, thev may
prove to be the most constructive force yet
enlisted in the service of the college.

As the alumni movement is little more
than two decades old in most colleges, it
has been natural that its activities have
been focussed upon the development and
growth of certain primary relationships.
In the early stages alumni organizations
have little reason for existence other than
sociability. Financial problems having
been omnipresent in the colleajes, the alum-
ni have been taught early and late of their
obligations in this respect.

But a new basis of institutional loyaltv is
now arising. Its concern is educational.
It springs from the fundamental question
of the validity of the educational process.
If an affirmative answer cannot be given to
this question by the alumnus, his enlist-
ment in the cause of alma mater will not be
long and will hardly be very effective.

This shifting picture of values in alum-
ni-college relationship is noticed particu-
larly at this time because of the rational
attitude of the younger alumni. Ten years
ago the outgoing graduate was still moti-
vated by enthusiasm and sentiment when-
ever he thought of his college. He was
willing to join the association and work
through it for the college without argu-

ment or thought. That day has now passed.
Today's graduate demands to know the va-
lidity of the alumni program and only if
it is directly related to the educational pro-
cess is he interested.

In an earlier period it was the maiuring
alumnus who thus became critical as to
the why and wherefore of the alumni asso-
ciation. If he found his association chiefly
engaged in promotional activities which
bore no import or interesting relation to
the college, he usually failed to carry on.
This attitude is today found in the youngest
alumnus. It therefore behooves all who
wish to trace a deeper course in alumni
work to examine the wellsprings of the
movement and to determine its validity.

We have heard much in recent years of
the adult education movement. In the
colleges it has taken practical form in
several directions such as a week of lec-
tures at the college, book lists and reading
courses, etc. In a larger sense tlie present-
day movement of which I have been speak-
ing is an adult education movement. And
to my way of thinking, it is its finest mani-
festation. It seems to me that the integra-
tion of the alumni bod)' into the college
program, in the sense of its participation
in a variety of ways in its well-being and
advancement constitutes the most effective
continuation education program.

Let the college keep constantly before
its graduates its aims, purposes and out-
look. And let the alumni have an oppor-
tunitv to engage in those enterprises which
fall within its sphere. In this inter-rela-
tionship, only the fringes of which have
yet been touched, lie \ast possibilities of
constructive service, of mutual aid to col-
lege and alumni. President Butler of Col-
umbia had this thought in mind long ago
when he said that if he could be assured of
the support of the alumni in the university
prosram. he could build an educational in-
stitution the like of which had never been
seen.

Sweet Briar College

Alumnae News

Our Selective Admissions

By Mrs. Bernice D. Lill, Registrar

ADMISSION to Sweet Briar to most
alumnae probably meant a tedious
matter which happily was soon for-
gotten in the work and play of college days.
To some few whose families have been rep-
resented on the rolls almost without inter-
ruption it may seem a rather fickle and
changeable matter. Only last year did it
become vital and personal to some alumnae
when their daughters became the first Sweet
Briar grand-daughters. As this number in-
creases with the years admissions will again
loom on the horizon of many an alumna.
There is, moreover, a constant relation be-
tween all alumnae and admissions in the
influence exerted by the alumnae on the
quality and number of applicants. Our
recognition of this influence increased last
year when we received visible evidence
of its existence in the letters which we re-
quired of applicants, telling us (among
other things) how these students became in-
terested in Sweet Briar. More than one
alumna thus finds herself each year bearing
some responsibility toward admission — a
condition which has probably been thrust
upon her and which she may not relish as
she writes letters of recommendation to
what seems a very remote committee on ad-
missions. The alumna may well wonder
why so many changes have taken place re-
garding admissions and whether the ends
justify the means.

Before considering the modifications
which develop continually in our admis-
sions methods let us glance at the constant
character of the ideals which motivate us;
then let us consider our more recent meas-
urements in relation to these ends. Presi-
dent Glass has great faith in the quality of
admissions job which can be performed
in the small liberal arts college which has
the benefit of devoted members of the fa-
culty — for it does take devotion to carry
on the kind of work which has been per-
formed for many years by our comm'tlee
on admissions. Each committee member
examines the complete correspondence and
all original material regarding each appli-
cant. This is 8 far different situation from

that which exists in many colleges where
committee members examine only trans-
cribed summaries of entrance records and
recommendations. It means that faculty
committee members spend hours before
each meeting in making their independent
estimates of applicants; no time of com-
mittee meetings is absorbed in explana-
tions; each acceptance or refusal is the re-
sult of considered judgment. That this is a
tremendous burden on members ot the fac-
ulty is evident, and as our number of appli-
cants increased it threatened to become too
great and to force us into a more mechan-
ical system. As we worked out the plan
we now follow President Glass held firm
in her faith in this system of selection and
in the value of placing all original material
in the hands of committee members. So we
evolved a rotating system by which certain
faculty members would meet for one series
of meetings and others for the two follow-
ing series, — the chairman, of course, at-
tending all meetings and serving as an in-
fluence for consistency among the three
groups. This system worked so happily
last year that we are continuing it with
confidence.

The system has stood a severe test in the
last two years with the large numbers of
applicants that have appeared. Rumor has
circulated exaggerated reports of these fig-
ures pro and con. Only a year ago we re-
ceived a letter from a disappointed mother
who expressed sincere regret that Sweet
Briar College must close as her daughter
wished to enter in 1932! Another report
gained some credence in Lynchburg last
fall to the effect that we had refused some
700 applicants! Our records show that the
number of applicants increased over a per-
iod of years through 1930, reaching a max-
imum of 770 who filed applications in that
year. For 1931 there were 650 applicants.
This is a large number, too large when we
consider that there are included a certain
number which are not serious. Many stu-
dents file applications at more than one
college, consuming time of committees on
admissions in several institutions. Others

Sweet Briar College

file applications without serious purpose
of entrance. Beginning with the present
year we are requiring a non-returnable ap-
plication fee to accompany each set of cre-
dentials which will receive the considera-
tion of our committee. This ruling is in
conformity with the practice in most of the
women's colleges in the North and East.
The fact that manj^ of our applicants also
apply at these colleges seems an added
reason for our regulation.

In our desire to choose more wisely we
have found it necessary to increase the in-
formation required about each applicant.
The school certificate continues to be the
most important single piece of evidence.
The certificate itself has grown a little more
elaborate, requiring a specific character es-
timate of the applicant and information
about the size of the graduating class and
the applicant's relative place in that group.
We mentioned above that last year we de-
cided to ask each applicant to write us a
letter, hoping to secure information about
her ambition, her background and her
tastes. Perhaps the alumnae would be in-
terested to see the specific questions which
we asked. The following is the letter used
last year:

Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, Virginia.

To Applicants for Entrance to Sweet Briar
College in 1931:

Although the Committee on Admissions
has always had considerable information
about each applicant from her school prin-
cipal, her parents or guardians, and some-
times from her friends, we have felt the
need for at least one communication direct-
ly from the applicant herself. We have
therefore decided to ask you to write a let-
ter to the committee giving information
which you might like to have considered by
us. We hope you will not confine your-
self to answers to the questions which we
add here as a basis for your letter, but we
do wish you to write something on each of
these points:

1. How you became interested in S^\'eet
Briar College;

2. What travel or camp experience you
may have had, or interesting contacts out-
side of your home and school;

3. What books of your own choice you
have read in the past six months;

4. Whether you expect to earn vour
own living; and

5. Whether you wish to get a degree at
Sweet Briar or whether at the present time
you have other plans.

We hope you will write to us promptly
so that we may have your letter before the
next meeting of our committee.
Sincerely yours,

Bernice D. Lill
Chairman, Committee on Admissions

The replies were enthusiastic and reveal-
ing of cultural interests in some cases;
they were merely adequate in more cases;
they seriously jeopardized some applicants
who wrote careless and crude letters. We
found the letter so helpful that in spite of
the time required in reading these hundreds
of letters the committee decided not only
to continue to require them but also to in-
crease the number of questions.

The fourth and fifth questions are de-
vised to give some indication of the serious-
ness of purpose with which the applicant
approaches college. Ability to do college
work is only next in importance to a desire
for a liberal education. Persistence and
ambition often carry an average student
far in advance of a more gifted student
who lacks these character traits. But, as
we all know, these are matters which are
difficult to measure. By asking directly we
run the risk of receiving answers which
are not the whole truth: at the same time
we may impress upon the applicant the im-
portance which we attach to purposiveness.
Ambition and desire for the degree change
with varying conditions in home and col-
lege. Studies of the relation between per-
sistence in college and education of parents
lead us to believe that those students tend
to remain for the degree whose parents are
college graduates. We are therefore asking
for this information on our application
form. It has been a matter of deep concern
to the college that too large a number of
students do not remain to complete the
course. The responsibility for this con-
dition rests partly on the admissions system
and we must consider every factor which
contributes toward an ambitious and ser-
ious-minded student-body.

Some of our loss of students has been
due to inability to meet the academic stan-
dards. Each June the college must drop

Alumnae News

some students for this reason, some of
^\'Iiom fail in spite of sincere effort. These
are students whose ability has measured in-
ferior on the psychological tests which we
have used for the past four years during
freshman week. Some of these students
presented for entrance almost perfect
school certificates accompanied by enthus-
iastic recommendations. They were evi-
dently victims of schools of unsatisfactory
standards and were seriously misled when
they were encouraged to enter Sweet Briar.
How to prevent the admission of these stu-
dents presents a probem which might be
partially solved in several ways: we might
refuse to accept students from schools
whose standards we had not tested; we
might require examinations of applicants
from untried schools ; or we might use psy-
chological examinations for all applicants
and exercise particular care with reference
to those whose test scores were low. The
first of these methods would soon narrow
our range of selection; the second might
narrow our range and certainly would
arouse protest from the untried schools.
The third method commends itself because
it is impartial and because it has been used
and found valid for our freshmen. As we
stated above, for four vears we have used
a psychological test during freshman week.
Scores on this test have correlated as high
as .60 with freshman grades. The test
has also discriminated quite accurately in
its lower ranges, indicating a score level
below which students are unlikely to suc-
ceed at Sweet Briar. Of the students who
took this test in 1930 we find that the low-
est ten at the end of the freshman year
with one exception in the lowest quarter of
the class academically. Of those who en-
tered in 1929 the lowest ten on the basis of
the test ranked at the end of the freshman
year as follows; three did not complete the
course; six were in the lowest quarter, one
in the second quarter. The results were
similar for those entering in 1928. These
facts lead us to believe that by requiring
a scholastic aptitude test for entrance we
may reduce our student loss and save some
otherwise fine young women from the hu-
miliation of being excluded from college.
The test which we have used is edited an-
nually and thus has the advantage of being
useful for comparative studies in successive

years and yet of not being available for
coaching.

It may interest the alumnae to know that
these psychological examinations have
given Sweet Briar an opportunity to com-
pare the mental ability of its entering
group with similar groups in other col-
leges. Comparative results were first pub-
lished for 1929 when 131 institutions used
the test. Sweet Briar ranked fifth among
the colleges and universities and first in the
South. In 1931 Sweet Briar ranked sixth
among 137 institutions, again first in the
South. The results for this year are not
yet kno^vn comparatively but our median
score indicates that the quality of mental
ability of our new students continues to
maintain this standard. By using this psy-
chological test as an admission measure we
may be able to raise the standard. The
cost of administering this examination is
being defrayed by the required application
fee mentioned above. The members of the
committee on admissions will find their
work not a little more interesting this year
with this added measurement to consider.

In spite of, or maybe because of, the
care with which we examine credentials
and the number of different pieces of evi-
dence required, we often find it extremely
difficult to reach a decision about an in-
dividual applicant. She may be strong in
some subjects, may give promise of intel-
lectual growth, yet she may come from a
school whose standards we have cause to
doubt or she may be weak in subjects re-
quired as continuation courses at Sweet
Briar. How can we give such an applicant
an opportunity to prove that she is better
prepared than we believe? How, also, can
we be fair to students from unaccredited
schools — schools which are not recognized
by their regional associations and yet which
offer the only opportunity for secondary
work to many students? These knotty pro-
blems the committee on admissions is try-
ing to solve by the use of College Board ex-
aminations. For students from unaccredited
schools we are requiring the New Plan or
comprehensive examinations in four sub-
jects: for students who show weakness in
required entrance units from strong schools
we accept examinations in these units. The
number of students qualifying on the ex-
amination basis in whole or in part is ap-
preciable and tends to increase annually.

Sweet Briar College

We are often asked — and the question
may have a familiar sound to alumnae
ears — "And when is Siveet Briar going on
the College Boards?" as though it were
only a question of time when we should
take this step. This is not at all a foregone
conclusion. There are certain disadvan-
tages connected with tlie examination sys-
tem which mav not be offset by the advan-
tages of such an objective and ready to the
hand method. Most of our applicants con-
sider it a real advantage to receive word
of acceptance bv February or May. Those
who are refused have ample time to make
other plans and those who are accepted be-
gin to anticipate certain aspects of their
freshman year in a way which fosters an
easy adjustment after their entrance. The
applicants are saved the nervous strain of
the examination week and the attendant
cramming which often exists. Even those
colleges which are recognized leaders in
the use of the Board examinations are not
entirely satisfied with the system as is sug-
gested bv the President of Vassar College
in his report for 1929-1930 where Dr. Mac-
Cracken states that the future will decide
whether there may be devised a basis for
competitive admission "involving less nerv-
ous wear and tear."^ The use of Board
examinations would also threaten to disturb
for a period of vears at least, the geo-
graphic balance of our student-body, which
is dra^Mi without manipulation or policy
about one-half from the Southern states
and one-half from the other states. Canada,
Cuba and foreign countries. The number
of College Board centers in the South is
proportionately so few that we should cer-
tainly disturb our geographic balance and
so affect one of the unique characteristics
of Sweet Briar.

This question of geographic distribution
is a most interesting one. Opinions have
differed regarding the relation between
home state for section of the country) and
persistence in the college, some believing
that those who came from a distance tended
to drop at the end of one or two years:
others maintaining that Northern students
were more serious-minded and therefore
more persistent. So we made a study of
the question and determined the proportion

of graduates to former students from each
section of the country. No dramatic re-
sults developed, — the proportions varied
only from 29 percent to 41 percent, with
slight e\'idence in favor of the students
from the Middle Atlantic states. The num-
ber of states represented tends to remain
above thirty, and the number of students
from foreign countries is increasing slight-
ly. This national character of our student-
body received recognition last year in A
Study of the Geographic Distribution of
Students in Three Hundred Sixty-three
American Colleges and I niversities pub-
lished by the School of Education of Rut-
gers Lniversitv. In this study Sweet Briar
is ranked third among national institutions,
having 18.9 per cent, of her students from
Virginia with 37 states represented. This
widespread distribution together with the
balance between Southern and other stu-
dents gives the Sweet Briar student-body
the stimulation which comes from close
contact with diversified points of view with-
out losing an essentially Southern charac-
ter. We who value this condition hope that
it will not be disturbed by pressure from
any one section. By keeping records we
are trying to foresee any trend which
might affect this distribution. If such a
condition were to threaten we should en-
deavor to stimulate the lagging section by
some direct means rather than adopt a
policy of geographic preference which
might affect adversely our academic stand-
ards.

An effective means of increasing interest
in Sweet Briar on the part of outstanding
students seems to be the offering of a num-
ber of tuition scholarships on a competitive
basis. ^^Tien the college fees were in-
creased last year the Board of Overseers
increased freshman scholarships to twelve.
six restricted to students from Virginia and
six to others. These scholarships were not
offered until early in 1931 and catalogue
announcement was not made until April.
We are therefore not disappointed that all
of these scholarships were not won this
year. Four scholarships were awarded on
the competitive basis, all by students from
the South, two entering from public and

(Continued on Paae 33)

*Vassar College
20, No. 5.

-Report of the President, 1929-1930. p. 6. Bulletin of Vassar College, Vol.

Alumnae News

Whither Modern Learning ?

By An Anonymous Friend

AGE is no longer a matter of years:
fashion and modern advertising have
seen to that. \^ ith these accomplices,
one need never grow old. Or so I had sup-
posed until recently when I discovered,
much to my dismay, that there is one re-
action to any experience which marks one
distinctly as "getting on."

At all modernisms, I decided, one may
express surprise (so long abhorred by a
post-war generation) but he must be
pleased. In no case must he be grieved.
That smacks of "the days that are no
more." If he is grieved, he is henceforth
irretrievably old.

That is my definition of age, but it \\as
not crystallized until I became grieved a
short time ago. I was reading of the at-
tempts to educate by radio, of the various
commissions on educdtion appointed to
that end, and of the most recently appoint-
ed national Ad\'isory Council on Radio in
Education.

I was thrilled. At last the millenium. I
thought, when all shall be initiated. An-
other Age of Pericles! Another Renais-
sance! Now the best that has been thought
and said will become the property of every
child in the land. I could see the council
saying with Carlyle, "That there should one
man die ignorant who had capacity for
knowledge, this I call a tragedy." I grew
enthusiastic as the idea took hold of my
mind and I visioned a new generation nour-
ished upon the fat of learning. The lonel\'
child in the Ozarks. the oppressed child on
the lower east side, all would make the ac-
quaintance of King Arthur and Gulliver,
Napoleon and Lee. Newton and Pasteur.
History and literature, geography and
science would flame the imaginations of
all. ( \^liat would happen to arithmetic I
did not contemplate: it had done nothing
for me at close range and I refused to let
it blur my dream.)

Then, rather tardily. I wondered what
the modem teacher taught about these
subjects which had thrilled me as a youth
and still offered me solace in these days of
depressing fiction and probing biography.

Since I was in a library during this rumi-
nation, the Reader's Guide came to my
mind as a possible source. Surely if I
knew what the teacher was writing, I should
kno\s" what he was thinking, and then my
question would be answered. Turning
first to English, writing and literature, for
that had been my favorite study and the
one which I had thought, in that visionary
flash of a few seconds, would bring most
pleasure to the student, I found strange
sounding titles. I thought I must have
found the wrong subject: I looked again.
I read the titles a second time but they re-
mained an enigma. The first one was long
and I 'Arote it down. "A plea for the co-
operation of administrative officers and
members of tire faculty in the development
of an effective and dynamic program of
training in English." (The italics are
mine.) I went on. "Errors and improve-
ment in rating English compositions by
means of a composition scale." (More of
my italics. ) Methods of measuring appre-
ciation of Shakespeare." "Composition as
a liberating activity." "Can theme-correc-
tion charts be made educational." And,
finally, one which made me close the book
in bewilderment and hurry out into die
sunshine to ponder this dreadful discovery.
"A diagnostic study of technical incorrect-
ness in the writing of graduates of Benson
high school."

T^Tiat did it all mean? What had hap-
pened to education since my days of closer
contact with it? I was surprised and,
when I later analyzed my reaction, I knew
I was grieved. Something was gone. Had
this mad search for the "utmost" in every-
thing been carried into the schools? A dy-
namic program with diagnostic studies of
composition charts sounded like the pro-
motion department of a Ford Motor Co.

Had modern industry entered the school?

They were earnest titles: I could not
doubt the writers' sincerety. One had made
a plea for cooperation. Possibly their
activity was more fruitful than I fancied,

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Sweet Briar College

From Your Treasurer

Dear Alumnae:

Just around the corner is Christmas and
then, just as the postman finishes deliver-
ing the Christmas cards, along comes an-
other avalanche of mail — three thousand
and more bills from the Sweet Briar Alum-
nae Association for 1931 dues.

This letter comes as a reminder as well
as a plea for everyone to make a particu-
larly earnest effort to pay her dues for the
coming year. Doubtless there mav be some
whom the business depression has affected
to such an extent that they will feel unable
to do so. Therefore it is up to those who
are not suffering financially to make an
extra effort at this time!

The life membership dues go into a
special fund at interest while the regular
dues help cover alumnae expenses: Secre-
tary's salary, Manson Memorial Scholar-
ship, dues to the American Alumni Coim-
cil. and the American Association of Uni-

versity Women, Alumnae publications and
office expenses.

The expenses of the Alumnae Associa-
tion for the year 1930-1931 were greater
than the receipts from both the dues and
the gifts from the Alumnae Clubs.

This amount has been made up by sell-
ing Sweet Briar plates and etchings. Next
year we cannot expect to realize as much
money through these sources, so it is up
to us to pav our dues to prevent an)"^ deficit.
The Alumnae Associntion must not allow
its organization to founder on the rocks of
financial disaster.

For the last two vears we have sent out
follow up letters in the form of blank
checks to those Aumnae who have not paid
their current dues. This expense adds
about fifty dollars to our budget and in
the coming spring we should like to elimi-
nate this item. Please help us by sending
your check early!

Sincerely yours,
Frances W. Penntpacker. '15.

A Prediction From the University oi Chicago

Wliat will education be like. 100 years
from now?

When the cornerstone of the new educa-
tion building at the University of Chicago
was laid recently, faculty members were
asked to write out their prophecies of what
education would be like in 2031, these fore-
casts to be sealed into the copper box,
along with the usual copies of current
newspapers, speeches, and other items cus-
tomarily placed in cornerstones.

An analysis of the forecasts seems to
show first of all that colleges and univer-
sities of the future will be run by experts:
that the present-day boards of education
will have been abolished: likewise state
departments of education.

Increased interest in fine arts, in non-
vocational education. Industries will large-
ly take over technical training.

Great development in adult education,
with age no factor.

Longer and more intensive graduate
work.

Increased importance of state universi-
ties, with tendency toward their becoming:

research institutions, with limited under-
graduate enrollment. Lndergraduates will
be largely taken care of in public colleges
and municipal universities.

Sharp decrease in number of privately
endowed universities.

Children will not be taught arithmetic,
geography, and spelling.

Methods of teaching will be based on
knowledge gained from scientific experi-
ment. Teachers will have periods of prac-
tice under the guidance of educational ex-
perts, just as internes serve in hospitals
now. Teaching will be a more expert and
respected profession than it is today.

Sound pictures, the radio, and television
will be used in large educational centers
to dispense lectures, music, and art ex-
hibits.

Students will be classified according to
ability rather than age. Instruction will
be greatly individualized. Grades and
marks will be abolished.

Xo long summer vacations: longer school
year: longer school day: longer period of
general education, from age 2 or 3 up to
at least 25.

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The United States and the World Court

By Perry Laukhuff

(Editor's Note — This paper was given before the Reading Circle of the League of Women
\ oters in Lynchburg. \ irginia. November 19, 1931. ^h: Laukhuff is Instructor in Government
at SVeet Briar College.)

MY subject for this afternoon is "The
United States and the World
Court." There is a particular
value in reminding ourselves again at this
time of the worth of the Court, and of re-
viewing our relations with it, since the
whole matter of our joining will come be-
fore the Senate at its forthcoming session
in December. There are two aspects of the
question with which I want to deal. First
I want to review the history and work of
the Court itself, and second I want to re-
view the history of our relations to the
Court.

By way of introduction it seems to me
that we must distinguish sharply between
this Court and previous "Courts," and
thereby illustrate the magnitude of the ad-
vance it makes. The distinction is really
one between arbitration and judicial settle-
ment or decision. Someone has summar-
ized it very nicely as follows: "The object
of international arbitration is ... . the
settlement of differences between states by
judges of their own choice and on the
basis of respect for law. The object of
judicial decision, on the contrary, is the
decision of differences by judges, not
necessarily chosen by the parties in con-
troversy, by an application of principles
of law, not on the basis of respect for
law."

I am aware that there are doubtless peo-
ple who smile sourly and ask what differ-
ence does it make whetlier we have arbi-
tration or judicial decision. There are
people who are inclined to agree with the
cynical author of "More Trivia" when he
says: "'Self-determination' one of them
insisted.

'Arbitration,' cried another.

'Co-operation,' suggested the mildest of
the party.

'Confiscation.' answered an uncompro-
mising female.

I. too. became intoxicated with the sound
of these vocables. And were they not the
cure for all our ills?

Tnoculation," I chimed in, 'Transsub-
stantiation. alliteration, inundation, flagel-
lation and afforestation'." ("More Tri-
via," L. P. Smith, P. 41.)

That is, of course, the easy attitude to
take. It is the attitude we are all often
inclined to take when distinctions are being
drawn. But arbitration and judicial deci-
sion do differ and the latter marks a very
real advance over the former. It means a
great deal for the peace of the world that
we have gotten to the point of using judi-
cial settlement as a substitute for. or rather
as a complement to, arbitration.

The distinction is simply this: arbitra-
tion is political in its character and lends
itself readily to compromise. A dispute
has arisen, the parties to it select their own
judges, and those judges attempt to arrive
at a decision which will be more or less
satisfactory to both parties. If that can
be done on the basis of law, well and good.
If not. compromise is resorted to and
each side is expected to give and take.
Judicial decision has none of this. The
dispute is submitted to judges not of the
parties' choosing and the decision is laid
down in accordance with law regardless of
whether that decision meets with the ap-
proval of one party or not. You can read-
ily see therefore that we have gone a long
Ka\ forward when disputing nations are
willing to accept an award even if it goes
against their contention.

I get a very real thrill out of tracing the
development of some institution like the
World Court down through the years.
Sometimes we become pessimistic if we
consider the status of affairs at any one
point in history. Things look pretty black
and ive \vonder if they were ever so bad
before. Men seem to be making no pro-
gress. Things are at a disconcerting stage
right now. If you want to regain your

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optimism let me suggest that you trace
some phase of human life or endeavor or
organization from its beginning down to
the present. I venture to say that in every
case, whether you be dealing with private
life or with public, you will discover a
very noticeable progress, and that in nine
cases out of ten the progress will have been
so marked as to make the story a truly
thrilling one. Such is the case in this
matter of disputes between nations.

It is exceedingly interesting to note how
we have moved up in the scale through the
centuries in our methods of settling dis-
putes. In the beginning, of course, we
had no recourse except to war. If your
tribe had something my tribe wanted, we
came and took it if we could, and vice
versa. Then we got to the stage of bar-
gaining in the event of a dispute — outright
bargaining, reinforced very closely by
threats. Next came more polite bargain-
ing known as diplomacy. War was still
in the background, and not so very far in
the background either, but we were getting
to the point where we were willing to use
reason in our relations with other nations.
The next step forward, and a big one it
was too, was the development of arbitra-
tion. Now we are in the infancy of what
may prove to be the final method — confer-
ence and judicial decision.

I cannot this afternoon go into the de-
tails of our development all down through
history, but I want to single out some of
the highlights of the more recent back-
ground of the World Court. Nothing ap-
pears de novo, which is only another way
of saying that there is nothing new under
the sun, and that is nowhere more true
than in the case of a World Court. Its
immediate predecessors were courts of ar-
bitration.

The nineteenth century and the first dec-
ade of the twentieth century saw the rise
and development of arbitration to its full-
est extent. Rather than trust solely to di-
plomacy and when it failed resort to war,
there arose the widespread practice of sub-
mitting disputes to arbitration. Sometimes
the arbitral court consisted of one man as
when the United States and Great Britain
turned to the German Emperor for decision
as to the ownership of the San Juan Islands
in 1872; sometimes it consisted of a num-

ber of persons, as in the case of the Ala-
bama Claims controversy.

Now a further important point to dis-
tinguish is that courts of arbitration are
ad hoc. That is, they are established for
one particular controversy. That contro-
versy being settled, the court's work is
done, it disbands, and the next time a
controversy arises, a new court has to be
chosen. This was true even of the Perma-
nent Court of Arbitration established in
1899 and renewed in 1907.

I said I was going to talk about the
Court and then about American relations
with it. But at this point it becomes neces-
sary to say that it is quite impossible to
separate the United States' relations with
the Court from the history of the Court.
America from its inception has been
wedded to the theory of the peaceful set-
tlement of disputes between nations. We
strongly supported arbitration — prior to
1899 we submitted our own disputes with
other nations to arbitration no less than
fifty-seven times. Presidents of the United
States served as arbitrators five times, and
other citizens of the United States on seven
occasions — and we strongly supported the
establishment of the Permanent Court of
Arbitration at the First Hague Peace Con-
ference in 1899.

In fact, our delegates were instructed
"by President McKinley and Secretary Hay
to act upon 'the long continued and wide-
spread interest of the people of the United
States in the establishment of an interna-
tional court' and to propose a plan for an
international tribunal to which the nations
might submit 'all questions of disagree-
ment between them, excepting such as may
relate to or involve their political inde-
pendence or territorial integrity'."

That leads me to digress at this point
long enough to say that a great many
treaties were negotiated during the nine-
teenth century and the early years of this
century providing for the submission of
disputes to courts of arbitration. In prac-
tically every case where these treaties ap-
plied to disputes in general rather than to
disputes over some specific questions they
stipulated that they should not apply to
controversies involving "vital interests" or
"national honor." This was a loop-hole,
and an extremely big loop-hole at that.

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It is a very peculiar thing that as indi-
viduals we are willing to trust to the pro-
tection of courts in matters of "honor."
But somehow "national honor" is such a
very sacrosanct thing that we can trust for
its protection to nothing other than our
own good right arm. More wars have been
caused by "national honor" than any other
ten things put together. If we can get
away from this silly, childish supersensi-
tiveness to fancied insults to our "national
honor" we shall truly have progressed.

But to return to the development of the
Permanent Court of Arbitration. Again
in 1907, President Roosevelt and Secretary
Root instructed our delegation to the sec-
ond Hague Conference to work for a true
international court of justice. In neither
case was it possible to agree on a true
permanent court, but the thoroughness
with which we were committed to the idea
had given great impetus to the creation of
the court which was set up.

As a matter of fact its title — The Per-
manent Court of Arbitration — was an al-
most complete misnomer for it was neither
"permanent" nor a "court." Briefly, it
consisted solely of a list of names. Each
nation which belonged to this organization
chose for a period of six years four of its
outstanding legally trained citizens as
"judges." Their names were all gathered
together on a panel at the Hague, and
whenever two nations wished to submit a
dispute to the arbitration of this Court they
would choose by what might become a
complicated process three or five men from
this list. Each time, therefore, a contro-
versy arose a new court had to be con-
stituted. Its work done it would be dis-
solved. The Court, therefore, was never
twice the same, there were long periods
when there was no Court at all, and it
was thus difficult for any real body of
international legal decisions to be devel-
oped.

The World Court now set up marks a
very clear step in advance, as I shall pres-
ently point out, of all that has gone before
including the Hague Court. "All," that
is, except the ill-faled Central American
Court of Justice, 1907-1917. This was a
real court composed of one judge from
each of the five Central American coun-
tries; it sat constantly and attempted to
apply international law impartially. We

helped to set it up in 1907, and by our
complete disregard for one of its decisions
we succeeded in knocking it into a cocked
hat ten years later. That was an experi-
ment which seems to have passed almost
unnoticed by the rest of the world, and to
have had little or no effect, so far as I
know, upon the foundation of the present
Court of International Justice.

The Permanent Court of International
Justice was not formulated or put across
by President Wilson. That may seem to
be an unnecessary statement, yet we asso-
ciate the Court with the League of Nations,
which we in turn associate so closely with
Wilson, that we are apt to forget that he
had practically nothing to do with the
former. There was absolutely no mention
even of any sort of International Court in
his first two drafts of the League Covenant.
It appeared in the House plan, the British
plan, the Hurst-Miller plan and others, but
apparently the President was not brought
to see the necessity of such an institution
until quite late in the peace negotiations.
It appeared in his third draft of his League
Covenant, and was finally included in the
peace settlement as Article XIV of the
League Covenant. To be sure, without
Wilson we should have had no League at
all, and consequently no World Court, but
it is only in this indirect way, and entirely
at the insistence of others, that the Presi-
dent is at all connected with the institution.

Let me quote Article XIV: "The Coun-
cil shall formulate and submit to the mem-
bers of the League for adoption plans for
the establishment of a Court of Interna-
tional Justice." When the Council came
to carrying out this Article, which it did
very promptly, America again unofficially
lent a helping hand. In February, 1920,
the Council appointed a Committee of
Jurists to draw up a plan for a Court; one
of the members of the Committee was
Elihu Root, who had instructed our dele-
gates to the Second Peace Conference in
1907, and had worked steadily betimes for
a court. It was due mainly, it may be said
parenthetically, to a conversation Mr. Root
had in the summer of 1918 with Colonel
House that the latter was won over to the
idea of an International Court, and in-
cluded it in his draft plan.

The whole course of our attitude toward
and relationship to the World Court seems

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to me to have been very similar to that of
the Quaker ship captain who was attempt-
ing to run the British blockade in 1812.
The ship being pursued by an enemy pri-
vateer, the mate wanted to resist, and asked
permission to mount a small swivel they
had aboard. The Quaker captain an-
swered : "Thee knows my principles would
not allow me to take part in any fighting."
"But, Captain," begged the Mate, "will you
go below for a few minutes and give up
the deck to me"? Seeing no harm and
possibly some good in this the Captain
agreed and disappeared below. The ship
approached, the swivel was mounted and
trained, but just as' it was about to be
touched off, a head appeared cautiously
above the companion-way. and a mild voice
said: "Mate, if thee means to do any exe-
cution with that swivel, I advise thee to
lower the muzzle a bit." Similarly we
have been quite willing to give advice
officially and unofficially in the formula-
tion of a Court but under no circumstances
have we been willing to take part in the
activities of such a court once formed.

Let me ask and answer in turn several
questions which will serve for our purpose
to throw light upon the World Court.
First. What kind of a Court was set up
in 1921? It is distinctively a permanent
court, sitting continuously the year round,
except for vacations, at the Hague. It is
interesting to note that this Court as well
as the old Court of Arbitration sits in the
great Peace Palace built through the gen-
erosity of the late Andrew Carnegie. It
was originally composed of eleven judges
and four deputy judges. The number of
judges has now been increased to fifteen
and pending changes will abolish the de-
puty judgeships. Que of the great difficul-
ties which formerly stood in the way of
establishing an international court was the
manner of choosing the judges. It was
manifestly impossible to have a Court on
which every nation would be represented.
How to choose a few judges, giving the
great states a preponderant voice without
depriving the small states of a voice was
a seemingly insoluble question. With the
establishment of the League, however, it
became possible to set up a c6urt whose
judges would be selected by the Council,
on which the great states are always repre-
sented, and the Assembly in which both

great and small states have representation.
Every nine years, therefore, the Council
and the Assembly acting separately vote
for judges of the Court; those candidates
who receive a majority vote in both bodies
are declared elected. An interesting con-
nection has been made between the old
Hague Court and the World Court in that
each national group on the old Court sub-
mits not more tJran four nominations to
the Secretary-general of the League of Na-
tions. Of these four, not more than two
may be of the same nationality as the
group making the nominations. In this
way, the Council and the Assembly of the
League get before them a list of capable
jurists from whom to make their selections.
One of the most striking features of the
Court is that the judges are not chosen to
represent nations. They are chosen rather
because they are able, because they know
international law, and because they repre-
sent the principal legal systems of the
world. On the present Court, for instance,
are a Japanese, a Spaniard, an Italian, a
Cuban, a Frenchman, a Salvadorean, an
Englishman, our own Frank B. Kellogg, a
Rumanian, a Belgian, a Pole, a German,
a Colombian, a Dutchman, a Chinese, a
Portuguese, a Finn, a Jugo-Slavian, and
an Austrian. Every effort is made, how-
ever, to consider the Court a imified body
of judges and to obliterate, as far as it is
possible, their character as nationals of
this state or that state.

It is not only a permanent court, but it
is also a court. In other words the inten-
tion is to have it apply the law impartially
and regardless of the consequences. The
law which it applies is, of course, interna-
tional law. International law is very dif-
ferent, to be sure, from ordinary statute
law within a state. There is no interna-
tional legislature to make laws as we or-
dinarily think of them. But there is, nev-
ertheless, a very real body of International
Law. It is composed of treaties, of the
decisions of national courts on interna-
tional subjects, the decisions of courts of
arbitration, of custom and practise, and
the opinions of the great writers on Inter-
national Law. In time the decisions of the
Permanent Court of Justice itself will be-
come one of the prime sources of law.

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The second question I want to ask is,
what is the Court to do? Its functions are
two-fold. It is to settle cases, actual con-
troversies which may be brought before it
by the parties. In most cases a decision
to submit to the Court will be arrived at
after the controversy has arisen, but it is
extremely significant to note that many
states, mostly the smaller ones for the
present, have signed a special Protocol
stating that they agree to submit all dis-
putes of certain characters to the decision
of the Court automatically and without
special agreement each time a dispute
arises. In addition, the Court also has the
very important function of rendering ad-
visory opinions to the Council and Assem-
bly of the League at their request.

The third and last question I want to
ask this afternoon is, what has the Court
done? Well, it has rendered sixteen judg-
ments altogether — judgments on a wide
variety of cases, most of them too complex
for us to go into here. For purposes of
illustration, I might cite the first decision
which the Court rendered back in 1923,
the case of the S. S. Wimbledon. This
case was brought on by the refusal of Ger-
many to allow an English ship carrjdng
munitions to Poland to go through the Kiel
Canal. Poland and Russia were then at
war, and Germany contended that since she
was neutral and the Kiel Canal was wholly
within her territory she could not allow
munitions to be transported through it.
The Versailles Treaty stipulated that the
Kiel Canal shall be maintained free and
open to vessels of commerce and war of all
nations at peace with Germany. The Court
held that the Canal had thus become an
international waterway, that the carriage
of munitions through it to a belligerant
would not compromise Germany's neutral-
ity, and that Germany was. therefore, lia-
ble to damages for not having allowed this
English steamship to pass through. That,
of course, was not a dispute which was
likely to lead to war, but the Court did
render some other decisions later in dis-
putes of a much more serious and irritat-
ing nature, notably in the cases involving
Polish treatment of German minorities —
a very sore spot indeed in present-day
Europe.

In addition, the Court has handed down
nineteen advisory opinions. I can easily

enough illustrate their importance by re-
calling to your minds the last one given
only this summer on the matter of the
Austro-German Customs Union. This pro-
posed economic rapprochement had caused
a storm of protest on the part oi France
and all her anti-German allies. France
relied upon that provision of the Treaty
of St. Germain, which pledged Austria to
retain her complete independence and
claimed that the proposed Customs Union
was only the fore-runner of eventual
political union. Austria and Germany
said it was nothing of the sort. Here you
had then a very good subject for judicial
settlement, a dispute which in former days
might very easily have lead to war, a dis-
pute involving the interpretation of a
treaty provision, and thus peculiarly suit-
able, let me repeat, for legal action. The
Council of the League, taking cognizance
of the quarrel asked the Court for an
opinion. The opinion, when it was finally
given, was somewhat of a disappointment
to many people, because of its apparently
political rather than legal nature. The
French judge and the judges coming from
allied nations held that the proposed Union
was illegal; the German judge, supported
by most of the non-Latin judges, held the
contrary point-of-view, but were in the
minority of one. I confess that I, myself,
had felt a good many doubts about this
opinion at first, but I believe that adequate
study of the treaty provisions involved will
convince anyone that there are two very
good sides to the question, and it is not at
all difficult to believe that the judges all
rendered their decisions in good faith. At
any rate the opinion seems to have had a
fairly happy effect all around. Germany
and Austria agreed to give up the proposal
even before the Court spoke, they felt them-
selves justified because of the strong sup-
port they got for their point-of-view within
the Court, and France was satisfied because
the decision was in her favor.

There are many more things which
might be said about the Permanent Court
but that will at least give us the high lights.
We can say then that at last in this year
1931 we have what the United States has
long sought for — a World Court. We have
a World Court which is functioning con-
tinuously, smoothly and well. We have a
World Court which is respected, and, so

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far, obeyed. We have a World Court
which has proved its value. And we have,
also, a World Court without the United
States as a member. Why?

What has been the story of the attempts
to get us into the Court? The story is a
disappointing one, and the record not one
of which we can be proud. If I were in-
clined to bring politics into this discussion
I might say the Republicans were to blame,
but they are staggering under enough
blame for one thing or another just at the
moment so I'll spare them on this matter.

The story is a ten-year-old one, for it
was back in August, 1921, that the Secre-
tary-general of the League of Nations sent
us a copy of the Protocol of Signature.
As was our custom in those days, we didn't
acknowledge receipt of the communication.
We were in the midst of our grandest iso-
lation, and had the notion that we could
put the League in its place by ignoring
it — and being very rude in the process.
In February, 1923, however. Secretary
Hughes wrote a letter to President Harding
advocating our joining on certain condi-
tions into which we need not now go. A
few days later President Harding trans-
mitted the letter to the Senate and asked
its consent to our signing the Protocol.
Absolutely nothing happened.

In December, 1923, Mr. Coolidge, now
President, recommended the proposal to
Congress and this time a resolution calling
for adherence was introduced but got no-
where. In May, 1924, the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee gave out two reports,
both favoring adherence; the majority with
many "ifs" and "ands" and "buts"; the
minority, headed by our Senator Swanson,
with the mild reservations advocated by
Mr. Hughes. There was absolutely no
result.

The platforms of both parties in 1924
favored American participation. In De-
cember, 1924, President Coolidge again
recommended in his annual message that
the Senate consent to our joining and Sena-
tor Swanson introduced a resolution to that
effect. March 3rd, 1925, the House of
Representatives passed a resolution favor-
ing our adherence, the next day's inaugural
address of President Coolidge repeated his
former statements and Senator Swanson

jumped into the breach with his usual reso-
lution and with the usual results.

Once more in December of 1925 did the
President call the attention of the Senate
to its delay on this matter. At long last,
on the 27th of January, 1926, the Senate
by a vote of 76 to 17 advised and consented
to our signing the Protocol with certain
reservations to which 1 will revert in a
moment.

On the basis of this action there resulted
a complicated series of negotiations look-
mg towards our entrance into the Court.
Secretary of State Kellogg sent notes to
each member of the Court informing them
of the action of the Senate, they in turn
invited us to a joint conference on the
matter which invitation we bruskly de-
clined to accept. Such a conference was
nevertheless held, attended by all the mem-
bers of the Court, and a Protocol drawn
up which at least partially met the Senate's
reservations. A number of states now an-
swered our original notes on this basis, but
Mr. Kellogg regarded the arrangements as
entirely unsatisfactor)-, neglected even to
reply to the communications, and held no
further conversations for two years. By
late 1928 the friends of the Court in the
Senate got to the point of requesting by
a resolution introduced by Senator Gillette
that the President renew efforts to come to
an agreement on the points of difference.
President Coolidge quickly announced that
he would renew negotiations and this an-
nouncement so heartened the other nations
of the world that the Assembly instructed
a Committee of Jurists, of which Mr. Root
was again a member, which was then
meeting for the purpose of making some
changes in the constitution of the Court,
to make a renewed effort to effect some ar-
rangement whereby the stipulations of the
United States Senate might be met. The
result was a new Protocol of Adherence,
which accepted completely all five of our
reservations. It was opened for signature
in September. 1929, and according to the
latest figures to which I have access, it has
been signed by fifty-three states, and rati-
fied by thirty-three.

Finally in November, 1929, Secretary of
State Stimson recommended that we sign,
which President Hoover authorized, and
which was done by our representative in

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Switzerland on December 9. 1929. The
next day President Hoover asked the Sen-
ate to ratify this action, but the only re-
sponse was a declaration b)' the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee that it would
defer consideration until December of
1931. That is the December which is just
ahead of us and to which we are looking
with hope not unmixed with trepidation.
Before commenting on this whole pic-
ture of delay and indifference, I ought to
explain briefly the main points, or at least
the ostensible points, which have kept us
out of the Court. \ ou will recall that the
Senate favored adherence in 1926 with five
reservations. Four of those aroused little
or no controversy, and were speedily
agreed to bv members of the Court. They
ran as follows:

I. Our adherence is not to involve legal
relations to the League or the assumption
of obligations under the Treat)' of Ver-
sailles.

II. The Lnited States is to participate
equally in the election of judges.

III. The United States is to pay a fair
share of the expenses, as determined and
appropriated by Congress.

IV. The Lnited States may wididraw
at any time.

But it was the fifth reservation which
raised the difficulties and caused all the
negotiating subsequent to 1926. It read as
follows:

V. "The Court shall not render any
advisory opinion except publicly after due
notice to all states adhering to the Court,
and to all interested states, and after public
hearing or opportunity for hearing given
to any state concerned: nor shall it. with-
out the consent of the Lnited States, enter-
tain any request for an advisory opinion
touching any dispute or question in which
the Lnited States has or claims an in-
terest."

This, to my mind, preposterous, if not
outrageous, assertion of national self-inter-
est, came near to wrecking the whole busi-
ness, but a way out was at last found
through the so-called "Root Formula"
which has been embodied in Article V of
the Protocol of Accession of the United
States. As I have before said this Protocol
starts out by accepting in toto the Ameri-
can reservations, but in Article V it goes
on to provide a very complete procedure

through which the United States can pre-
sent to the Council or Assembly any in-
terest or claim to interest which it may
have in a pending dispute. In this way
we would have a chance to interpose our
objections through an exchange of corres-
pondence with the Secretary-general of the
League of Nations before a request for an
advisory opinion would ever be made. If
for an)' reason no sufficient interchange of
opinion could take place and the request
should be made. Article V provides further
for a very adequate interchange of views
between the United States and the Court
before the latter takes any action on the
request. All of this procedure coupled
with the acceptance of Reservation V
would seem to be sufficient to put at rest
even the uneasy doubts of a United States
Senator, and safeguard our interests as
completely as it is possible to do so. The
Root Formula goes even one step farther
and says that if despite all this the Court
and the United States could not agree as
to whether or not we have or claim an
interest we may withdraw from the Court
without the slighest imputation of tm-
friendliness or bad sportsmanship. Surely
no one could go further than this to meet
our every wish on the matter. To any
reasonable person it would appear that our
wishes have been met. Wliether it will so
appear to the Senate in December I do not
know !

With this picture before us let me repeat
my earlier statement that it is decidedly
not a record to make our hearts beat with
patriotic pride. It is a record of delay
which almost matches that exemplified in
the correspondence between a woman in
Nantucket and her husband who was off
in the Pacific on a whalins expedition:

From the wife: "Dear Ezra, where did
you put the axe?"

From the husband (fourteen months
later) : "Dear Martha, what did you want
the axe for?"

From the wife (two years later) : "Dear
Ezra, never mind about the axe. \^Tiat did
vou do with the hammer?"

For eight years, certainly for five years,
we have been almost trembling on the
brink of the World Court, ready to fall in
with the first breeze that blew, or at the
lightest touch of some leader. But no
breeze has blown and no leader has yet

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supplied the touch. Eventually we shall
fall in of our own weight but it is nothing
short of tragic that we should have to wait
so long.

I am much given to saying that since
Wilson there has been no leadership in
the United States. Nowhere is this more
painfully evident than in the matter of the
Permanent Court. I firmly believe that,
given some of his determination and
enthusiasm, and a few of his ringing
speeches, we would have long since taken
our part in this world movement. To be
sure, as we review events, we see a surpris-
ing amount of pertinacity and insistence
evidenced by President Coolidge. Indeed
we may fairl)^ say tliat "Silent Cal" waxed
positively loquacious on this subject. But
I fear that his loquacity is not of the va-
riety which stirs men to action. Let me
quote the following excerpt from his 1923
message as a sample. "Pending before the
Senate is a proposal that this government
give its support to the Permanent Court of
International Justice. . . As I wish to see a
Court established and as the proposal pre-
sents the only practical plan on which
many nations have ever agreed, tho it may
not meet every desire, I, therefore, com-
mend it to the favorable consideration of
the Senate, with the proposed reservations
clearly indicating our refusal to adhere to
the League of Nations."

At all events ha\'ing arrived at our pres-
ent position whether we have leadership
or not, there would seem to be no longer
the slightest excuse for delay. What can
we do, what can you do, to make the
Senate see the matter in that light?
Really, in the circumstances, there is very
little which you can do. You might,
if you were so inclined, make knowTi to
your Senators, individually or as a group,
your favorable attitude toward the World
Court. Of course, both Senator Glass and
Senator Swanson are already thoroughly
committed to the support of the Court,
hence such expressions would have less in-
fluence than if their attitudes were doubt-
ful or hostile. Nevertheless, I really be-
lieve that such action might be of real
value to them, and to Senators similarly
well-disposed, in aiding them to brmg
pressure to bear upon the Senate minorit)'.

Here is a project for which the United

States has long worked and with which
public opinion is overwhelmingly in sym-
pathy — public opinion as evidenced by
resolutions of various organizations, by
the press, by the platforms of the major
parties, by three successive Presidents, by
the House of Representatives, and by the
Senate itself. Recently the American Bar
Association has strongly urged Senate ac-
tion and an accompanying statement made
by John W. Davis, its President, expresses
very well my own thoughts upon this mat-
ter, and I take the liberty of quoting his
concluding sentence. "The emphatic re-
commendation of these legal groups pro-
ceeds from a conviction that to refuse rati-
fication of the protocols and thus to defeat
the adherence of the United States to the
Court is to deny a traditionally American
ideal, to disregard the recommendation of
both national parties, and to invalidate the
Senate's o^nti action of 1926, providing for
our entrance into the World Court on the
conditions that are now satisfied by the
pending treaties."

I should like to stress the fact that it is
not by accident that Americans have had
so much to do with the setting up of inter-
national courts. Settlement of disputes by
judicial procedure is a thoroughly Anglo-
Saxon, and even more an vVmerican habit.
Way back in 1789 we set the world an
example of how jarring communities could
compose their differences peaceably, by
estahlishing the Supreme Court under a
Federal system of government. By later
usage we have accorded constantly more
power and respect to this inter-state tri-
bunal. This has been a distinctive Ameri-
can contribution to the art of governing.
Are we now to lose our faith in the idea
when it is applied to a %\-ider sphere?
Professor Frederick L. Paxon of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin in his stimulating
little book, "When the West is Gone,"
suggests that the true test of ^vhether our
frontier life created any truly great and
distinctive American ideals and institu-
tions will be our ability to carry over into
the international sphere what we profess
in the Federal sphere. I have faitli to be-
lieve that America can and will give to the
world the benefit of her own experiences
and attempts at the rational settlement of
disputes.

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Before I close, I want to touch upon
another consideration. I have already
stressed the importance of this subject in
view of the approaching Senate session.
Let me also point out that there is a Dis-
armament Conference approaching in Feb-
ruarv. and I believe that there is a very
real connection between the Court and Dis-
armament. The Court's relation to the
general problem of peace is two-fold.
First, it may be resorted to directly in
case a dispute has already arisen. That
aspect of the matter we have already sufii-
cientlv touched upon this afternoon.

In the second place, it bears another
and equally important, but indirect, rela-
tion to the maintenance of peace. The
existence of such a Court, adhered to by
most of the nations of the world, especially
the large ones, functioning well, and actu-
allv safe-guarding national rights, will do
more than almost any other one thing to
produce a feeling of security. And se-
curity is a prime prerequisite for Disarm-

ament. Without it, the forthcoming Con-
ference will fail, surely. You may contend
that Disarmament will produce a feeling of
securitv. Admittedly this is a matter in
■which cause and effect are all mixed up.
I am for Disarmament, the greater the
better, and I do believe that a cessation of
rivalry in armaments would be a contribu-
tmg factor of great importance in lessen-
ing international nervousness.

Nevertheless, I do not think that the
^\orld in general looks at it in that way,
and as far as practical diplomacy goes, I
believe that ^ve will be strengthening our-
selves in the matter of disarmament if we
give a good deal of attention to other
methods of creating confidence, good-will
and a feeling of safety. Disarmament will
then seem less dangerous and will in its
turn add to the feeling of good-will. Let
me conclude my remarks by saying, then,
that the Lnited States can render no better
service to the cause of Disarmament at this
point than by joining the World Court.

Whither Modern Learning ?
(Continued from Page 23)

but I thought of Pater's phrase, "a dark,
mistaken eagerness."

And despite the fact that I was by that
time on top of a Fifth Avenue bus careen-
ing wildly in do^vTi town traffic at five of
an afternoon, I heard again in my inner
ear that sweet low voice which had opened
so many new worlds to me as a school girl.
I had wept silently over Elaine, I had
pitied but condemned John Brown, I had
romped with Prince Hal and Falstaff — each
had been an adventure, and although I am
sure she had no gauge for ticking out mili-
meters of appreciation, I am equally sure
that our lady ivith the key to the gateway
of adventure was certain of her aims and
cognizant of her success. "Adventures
among Masterpieces!" That was my educa-
tion, and that was my vision for the thou-
sands of children who were to be educated
by another small voice. But what kind of
adventure can one offer with an eye on
charts and tests? Like going camping with
a frigidaire in one's pack, I thought. Play-
ing safe, you see, and not entirely giving
oneself up to the adventure.

If those titles were the signs of the educa-
tional times, then my dream for the chil-
dren educated by radio was a deluding
myth. Their adventures would be charted
and their guides would know infallibly
where thev were going.

That night, alone and somewhat troubled
by my thoughts of the afternoon, I took
down my King Arthur and I was soon back
in the lost world of romance. The little
girl who had listened in wrapt attention
when she had first met Elaine, now joined
me. She sat spellbound again, and we
held each other's hand in deep content.

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For that infinity where lines may meet,
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The Dance Program

The program of the Mid-Winter Cotillion, Sweet Briar, February 12, 1909.

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ORDER OF DANCES

PART FIRST

1. Two Step — A Big Night Tonight.

2. Waltz— Fd Rather Waltz Through
a Dreamy Old Waltz With You,
You, You.

3. Two Step — Harrigan.

4. Waltz— Waltz With Me, Dear, 'Til
Fm Dreamv.

5. Two Step — Snuggle LTp a Little
Closer.

6. Waltz — Slumber On, My Little
Gypsy Sweetheart.

7. Two Step — Don't Be Cross With
Me.

8. Waltz — Friends That Are Good
And True.
Two Step — Idaho.
Waltz— Melody of Love.
Two Step — Honey Boy.
Waltz— Merry Widow Waltz.

SUPPER

PART SECOND

Two Step — Dixie.

14. Waltz— Ah! Gee! Be Sweet to Me,
Kid.

15. Two Step — Jungle Town.

16. Waltz— Vilia.

17. Two Step— What's the Use.

18. Waltz— Waltz Dream.
Two Step — It's Awful Lonesome
Tonight.

Waltz — Love Me Just Because.
Two Step — Maybe, Sometime.
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Two Step — Wannaloo.
Waltz — Home, Sweet Home.

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Campus Life

By Sally Shallenberger, '32

CAMPUS life— it begins with tlie fa-
miliar but always startling laundry
whistle and ends with the ten-thirt)-
bell. Between dawn and the time Mr.
Beard goes around collecting mail and
stray bits of information on our night-life,
the interests of the students may lead them
into many different t)'pes of campus activ-
ity. However, there are two places which
figure in the daily existence of every girl,
(the dell and the post office) unless she
is confined by illness in the luxurv of Dr.
Harley's infirmary. The alluring nature
of the post office is as obvious as it is
eternal. Even the spaciousness of the new
building does not prevent a mob scene at
tlie appointed hours when the mail is "put
up." But the attraction of the dell is not
limited to any particular time. TVTiether
the temperature calls for summer dresses
or racoon coats, whether classes are in
session or not, the dell is never without its
colorful clusters of girls who sit about,
cigarette in hand, discussing evervthing
from a dreaded quiz or an anticipated
week-end to Kant's categorical imperative.
The dell has become the successor to Bus
Rhea's for discussions as well as smoking.
Two years ago, the charm of the little old
smoke-filled barn with its atmosphere of
intimacy and its iron stove around which
we huddled on cold afternoons, was worth
walking tlie advertised mile. Though some
of us may miss that picturesqueness, the
dell as one of the loveliest spots on cam-
pus has easily taken its place.

The Boxwood Inn is next in rank of those
places where an interested observer mav
take up a strategic position to behold cam-
pus life. The depression has not decreased
the number of morning dissipators. spend-
ing a vacant period over coca-colas and
cookies. And the Tea House temptation is
just as strong as ever to the exhausted,
bloomer-clad procession that straggles up
the hill from the lower hockey field in the
afternoons. The Inn continues to be the
scene of teas with one's favorite teachers
and of surprise birthdav parties. And
somehow that Boxwood specialty, the eter-

nal "chicken salad and waffles," still re-
mains an enticing prospect.

Strangers often ask in disparaging tones
what on earth we find to do at a college
'way out in the country. But at Sweet
Briar, our isolated campus affords a
means of self expression for every girl.
The nature addicts have round them the
constantlv changing panorama of the foot-
hills of the Blue Ridge JMountains, with
all the beauty that the name promises.
Those whose athletic tendencies are limited
to walking have an innumerable choice of
little hidden paths, through the pine for-
ests, over rustic stiles and Virginia rail
fences. The even less energetic exercisers
can find satisfaction in the windy road to
the orchard. The bookworm is equally
well provided for. For one thing, she can
spend her spare time in the Browsing
Room. However, even those truant readers
are better acquainted with the interior of
the reading room than with any other part
of the library, for. contrary to the opinions
of outsiders, who are impressed only by
the name "Sweet Briar" by its musical
quality and its suggestion of pastoral in-
souciance, the librarv is the most frequent-
ed building on campus.

On week-ends, it is true, our propensity
to studv is not so obvious. Both students
and campus discard their rural simplicity
for a few signs of metropolitanism. High
heels and silk stockings replace the usual
socks and "campus models," while innum-
erable roadsters, some long and racy,
others not so long and not at all racv. file
through the gates past Mr. Beard's faultless
vision. The polo-coated passengers from
nearby institutions of masculine education
disembark, and, each accompanied by a
Sweet Briar girl, form an endless Big Pa-
rade between the Quadrangle and die old
oak tree when the weeklv gvm in the Com-
mon Room is over.

But shortly after the ten-thirty bell, when
the roar of the departing cars has subsided,
the quiet is disturbed onlv bv a few faint
sounds from the radios of the Guv Lombar-

B \I S P D Tryo

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f a scries of

TIME adz t s

t p eparcd hy

J or Lea

c s

In December, 1 170, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, Thomas a Becket was foully murdered
before the altar in Canterbury Cathedral by
henchmen of King Henry II. In vain Henry
fasted, wept, denied responsibility God-fear-
ing bishops, clerics and laymen, kno^^ing that
the death of Saint Thomas occurred after hasty
words uttered by the King; knowing also, that
it followed years of bitter controversy between
Henry and Becket on questions of Church
versus State privilege, doubted his sincerity,
thirsted for his excommunication

Back in Normandy, after the conquest of
Ireland (undertaken at this time partly to es-
cape visits from papal legates), amid his dis-
sension-ridden French provinces. Henry found
himself still in bad odor with the church, ar-
dently desired reconciliation At Avranches he
buried his pride, met legates of Pope Alexander
III, before whom he swore to innocence of the
murder, and as penance for his angry words
promised many concessions To complete his
submission he secretly vowed a final humilia-
tion

As TIME had it been published July 16.
1174 would have reported subsequent events

Idle onlookers at the gateway of the town of
Canterbury last week watched weary travellers plod-
ding barefooted toward the great Cathedral Object

to visit the shrine of the late Archbishop. Thomas a
Becket, sainted martyr of the Roman Catholic Church

Bloodstained footprints in the dust behind him
drew the attention of the bystanders to one pilgrim
in particular Ruddy, square-jawed, freckle faced,
noble in mien, though in the garb of a penitent, he
made his way thru the dusty street of Canterbury
followed by a crowd of the curious, who soon knew
him to be his most gracious Majesty. Henry II,
King of England. Duke of Normandy, Count of
Anjou, Maine and Touraine. Count of Poitou, Duke
of Aquitaine, suzerain lord of Britanny

Up the steps of Canterbury Cathedral, mto the
vaulted silence they follov/ed. King Henry straight-
way descended m;o the crypt, threw himself at the
foot of the sepulchre of Saint Thomas, where he lav
prostrate with outstretched arms, bitterly groaning,
weeping, the while Gilbert Foliot. Bishop of London
ascended the pulpit and addressed the multitude

Eloquent, he adjured them to believe the Kmg's
assertions of his innocence of the murder of Becket
and to accept this humiliating penance as proof of
his regret for the passionate expression which had
led to the crime, albeit unintentionally. The expres-
sion "Will none of the cowards who eat my bread,
rid me of this turbulent priest,"' uttered shortly be-
fore the murder to a group of courtiers

Not yet content, burly King Henry repaired to the
Chapter House, where were assembled eighty monks
and bishops Here he stripped, bent his bare shoul-
ders, received from each monk three, from each
bishop five stinging lashes with a monastic rod.

Bruised and bleeding he returned to the shrine,
fasted, and watched the night thru, at dawn took
horse to London where he arrived next day His
Majesty is still confined to his bed

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do fans and by a hushed murmur of voices
engaged in some all-important "bull ses-
sion." A circle of friends — a difference of
opinions — the first experiences of defend-

ing one's own ideas — all lead to decisions
that mold our characters into what we are
now and more importantly into what we
will be after we have scattered.

Christmas and the Alumnae Office

"It isn't the gift; it's the sentiment be-
hind it." Wliat greater sentiment could be
shown an old friend than a gift expressive
of the days at Sweet Briar? And this gift
may be obtained in your own Alumnae
Office. A new shipment of plates has just
arrived; the price is thirteen dollars a
dozen, delivered anywhere in the Linited
States. The new china, which you read
about last month, is now reduced in price;
tea cups and saucers for ten dollars a
dozen, tea plates for nine dollars a dozen,
and bread and butter plates for seven dol-
lars a dozen. The sugar bowl is now three
dollars, the cream pitcher is two dollars,
and the tea pot (six cup) is three dollars
and fifty cents. Express on this new china
is extra.

For the lover of art we have the etch-
ings; Sweet Briar House, the Cabin, and
the Oak. Speaking of the Oak perhaps
you should know the sad news that it has
had to be cut again and now only a little
of the stately old tree remains. We were
indeed fortunate to have had the etching
done before the Davey Tree men arrived
this fall. These etchings are all the work

of the eminent artist, Mr. Don Swann. of
Baltimore, Maryland.

Something new! The air plane picture
(see page 17] ! There are just one hun-
dred of these for sale at one dollar a piece
plus ten cents postage. The picture is
eight by ten inches and shows all of the
buildings on the campus including an ex-
cellent view of the new gymnasium.

Increased interest has been shown in the
Book Plates that are being done by Billy
Dew. In this issue on page 40 you will
find a new plate showing the winding stair
case of the Library. A very special price
has been placed on these that they may
be within reach of every Sweet Briar girl.
They are ten dollars a thousand, six dol-
lars for five hundred, and three dollars for
two hundred and fifty. Five days' notice
is required before shipment can be made,
so please anticipate your orders now.

Considerable time and effort has been
spent in arranging for the sale of the
charming Sweet Briar reminders. Please
show your co-operation and shop with the
Alumnae Office when possible.

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Class Personals

ACADEMY

Madeline Sacks Schauer is doing some very
special "vvork in portrait painting.

Elizabeth Darnell Snyder has moved from her
home in Florida to Roanoke, Virginia, to live.

Anne Keith Drake has been in Cleveland, Ohio,
where she went with Mr. Drake to help direct the
opening performance of their new play "Against
the Wind.""

Margaret Reed Collard has a daughter born
recently.

1910

Anne Powell Hodges was the hostess for the
Special Guests" Tent during the recent celebration
at Yorktown.

Eugenia Griffin Burnett returned to college to
attend the October meeting of the Board of Over-
seers of the college. She remained for Founders'
Day.

1911

Claudine Griffin Holcomb, ex-'ll, returned to
college for Founders" Day.

Reunion 1932.

1912

1913

Mary Pinkerton Kerr has returned to her home
in Spartanburg, South Carolina, from spending a
year at the University of Virginia where she has
been working on her Ph.D.

Margaretta Ribble (Dr.) has returned from
Europe where she has been doing many interest-
ing things on a two-year Research Fellowship.

Reunion 1932.

1914

1915

Reunion 1932.

Sarah Wilson Faulkner, ex-'15, is teaching home
economics in a school in Chesterfield County,
Virginia.

1916
Reunion 1932.

1917
Reunion 1932.

1918
Elizabeth Lownmn Hall is the new president
of tlie Junior League of Elmira, New York.

1922
Reunion 1932.

Mary McCormick, ex- '22, is now Mrs. Warren
Andrews and lives in Montgomery, Alabama.

1923
Marie Klooz is the chairman of the Sweet Bilar
table for the intercollegiate alumnae luncheon
which is being given under the auspices of the
College Club of Pittsburgh. Marie was recently
on campus for the week-end.

1925
Eugenia Goodall Ivey has a daughter, Eleanor
Prescott.

Alumnae News

Dorothy Herbison Hawkins has a son, John H.,
born last July.

Maiy Nadine Pope is the librarian at the Cleve-
land Institute of Music and is assisted by Mar-
garet Cramer, '27.

Helen Tremann Spahr has a son born recently.

Mary Craighill is acting as secretary to her
grandfather. She is also secretary and treasurer
of Christ Church in Savannah.

Martha Lee Williamson has a son born last
June.

Eleanor Miller Patterson, with her small son,
spent some time on campus this summ:r.

Susan Hager Rohrer spent some time visiting
Eugenia Goodall Ivey at her home in Lynchburg.

Margaret Hague Pfantz has returned to her
home after spending some time with Dora Han-
cock Williams.

Frances Burnett Mellon has a daughter, Mai-y
Ann, born last August.

Juliet Selby Hill's child is a girl and not a boy
as was previously armounced.

Lucy Reaves has been spending the past two
weeks visiting friends in San Antonio, Texas.

Nancy Bryson Smith, ex-'25, has a son born last
June. She has moved to East Orange, New Jer-
sey, to live.

Helen Harpster Seney, ex-"25, has a son, Henry
HI, born early in October.

1926

Wanda Jensch is now Mrs. Wilton Winans
Harris and is living in Brooklyn, New York.

Tavennor Hazelwood Whitaker has returned
from her wedding trip and has moved to Chatta-
nooga, Tennessee, to live.

Nell Atkins is assistant in a nursery school in
Cincinnati.

Alberta MacQueen was married to Mr. De-
Ranger while in England visiting Amy Williams
Hunter, '25.

1927

Margaret Williams was married on October 21,
to Mr. Charles Armistead Bayne. They will live
in Norfolk, Virginia.

Laura Boynton is now Mrs. J. Mott Rawlings
and has moved to El Paso, Texas, to live,

Caroine Compton is spending some time at
Mrs. Wills in Amherst and is doing some paint-
ing.

Elizabeth Miller Allen has moved to Cincinnati
to live.

Ann Ashurst Gwathmey, ex-"27, is working in a
book store in New York.

1928

Virginia Van Winkle was man-ied on November
21 to Mr. John Bailie Morlidge, Jr.

Louise Bristol was married on November 28 to
Mr. Ronald Wilson Lindemann.

Bess Lowrance has moved to Chattanooga, Ten-
nessee, to live. She spent the Thanksgiving holi-
days in Ponca City, Oklahoma.

1929

Mary Marshall Morehead is modeling this win-
ter at Macy's in New York.

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Nora Lee Antrin has gone to Boston where she
will spend the winter.

Bess Anita Peters is doing psychiatric social
work for the Veterans' Administration in Coates-
ville, Pennsylvania.

Margaret Green, ex-"29, is spfnding the winter
in Boston.

Julia Harrison, ex-'29, was married on October
24 to Dr. James Winston Watts.

Julia Thomas, ex-'29, is secretary to a laxvyer
in Baltimore.

Sweet Briar College

1930

Marjorie Sturges is teaching French, Latin and
English in the high school in Rye, New York.

Elizabeth Marston has been visiting Rosalie
Faulkner. ex-'31. at her home in Lynchburg.

Eleanor Marshall was married recently to Mr.
Beverly Tucker and has moved to Baltimore,
Maiyland. to live.

Lucy Harrison Miller has returned to her home
in Lynchburg from Charlottesville where she went
to participate in the Farmingtan Country Club
golf tournament.

Monai Stone Green has a daughter, Anne Mc-
Millan, born September 10.

Emma Reily is spending the winter in Boston.

Emilie Jasperson, ex-'30, is now Mrs. Carl
Bayha and lives in Toledo, Ohio.

1931

Reunion 1932.

Agnes Cleveland spent several days on campus
recently on her way to her home. She was re-
turning from New York where she went to attend
the wedding of Pauline Woodward to Mr. Robert
Hill, Other members of the wedding party were
Sims Massee, Dorothy Ayres, ex-'31, and Cecil
Woodward, '29.

Martha von Briesen has retumed to her home
after spending several weeks in Boston. Martha
is now working in her father's office.

Jessie Hall. Mary Frances Westcott, Elizabeth
Phillips and Meta Moore spent a week on campus
the last of October.

Cynthia Vaughn and Mary Lynn Carlson have
been spending some time with Maiy Leigh Seaton
at her home in Richmond, Virginia.

Caroline Heathe made her debut the last of
October at her home in Norfolk, Virginia. She
spent a week-end on campus recently.

Frances Lee Kelly visited the campus for a few
days early in November as did Virginia Keyser.

Barbar Main has returned to her home after
spending a week with Phoebe Rowe Peters in
Rochester, New York.

Maiy Lou Flournoy is spending the month of
November in New York.

Eileen Fowler, ex-'31, was manied recently to
Mr. Robert Bardwell. Betty GofI, ex-'31, was a
member of the wedding party.

Frances O'Brian spent a couple of weeks at
Mrs. Wills recently.

Flora Blair Austen, ex-'31, has announced her
engagement to Mr. Talbot Mercer Rogers.

Isabel Bush, ex-"31, is making her debut this
winter at her home in Mobile. Alabama

EX-1932

Elizabeth and Eleanor Layfield are attending
the Meredith College at Raleigh, North Carolina.

S'usan Gay is living in New York this winter
and is attending the Arts League there.

EX-1934

Dorothy Eckler is at the Pittsburgh College
for Women.

Marion Walker is continuing her studies at the
LIniversity of Kansas.

Marjorie Westcott is studying music in New
York.

Anna Young is studying at the University of
Oklahoma this winter.

Betty Henigbaum has entrred Northwestern
University for the winter.

Dorothy Hutchinson is attending Northwestern
LIniversity this winter.

Hattie Johnson is taking a business course in
Richmond, Virginia.

Bemadene Johnson is attending North Carolina
ColLge for Women at Greensboro, North Caro-
lina.

Charlotte Meyer is studying at the Grand Cen-
tral School of Art in New York.

Angelia Morrison will spend the winter in
Washington. D. C, where she will make her
debut.

Maiy Reif is attending the University, of Michi-
gan.

Jeannette Ricketts is spending the winter in
Washington, D. C, where she is attending Chevy
Chase School,

Eleanor Rust is studying art at the Corcoran
Art Gallery in Washington, D. C.

Nancy Savage is spending the winter in New
York where she is attending the Finch School.

Virginia Scott is attending the Katherine Gibbs
School in New York.

Suzanne Slater is attending the University of
South Carolina.

Elsbeth Toepfer is attending the University of
Wisconsin.

ALUMNAE NEWS

SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE

MARCH
1932

SWEET BRIAR, VIRGINIA

PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

Volume I Number 2

^tiiect Idtiaz alumnae l^etos

Editor — Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge, '18

Table of Contents

Reading Room, Mary Helen Cochran Library Frontispiece

To All Sweet Briar Alumnae 3

Editorial Comment , 4

With the President 5

Club Activities 6

Commencement, June, 1932 9

Proposed Change in the Contitution of the Alumnae Association 9

Report of the Nominating Committee 10

The Student Book Shop and the Alumnae 10

From the Art Department 12

Sweet Briar Hostess to Advisory Group on College Libr.aries 13

Concerts and Lectures 14

The Co-operative Test Service 15

.\ Summer Vacation at O.xford 15

The George Washington Bicentennial 16

The Honor Banquet 16

Preachers to the College 17

Planting Plans 18

From the Athletic Department 21

May Day 21

Common Sense Week 24

From the Music Department 25

The American Alumni Council 25

National Student Federation Association 25

Rome in the 1930's 27

Campus News 29

Cl.ass Personals 31

The Alumnae Neics is a member of the American Alumni Council

PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

Four times a year — March. June, October and December
Subscription Rate — $1.00 a year; Single Copies. 30 Cents
.\pplication for entiy as second class matter is pending

THE READING ROOM
MARY HELEN COCHRAN LIBRARY

To All Sweet Briar Alumnae

ONCE more it is my pleasui"e and
privilege to greet you in this spring
message, and to extend to you, on
behalf of the Alumnae Association, a most
cordial invitation to come to Sweet Briar
for the approaching commencement. If
you happen to be in one of the "reuning"
classes, I hope you will make an especial
effort to return; but if you are not, and it
is convenient and possible for you to come,
rest assured that a warm welcome awaits
you. No one who has not had the experi-
ence can realize the satisfaction and in-
spiration of three days on that beautiful
campus — three days in which one forgets
the intervening years and renews the old
delightful associations.

I am sure that you have enjoyed espec-
ially the last two issues of the alumnae
magazine, and that with me you want to
congratulate our efficient secretary on its
changed character and scope — enlarged to
make it a more real expression of all the
phases of our growing college and also to
keep us alumnae, who are rather prone to
become stale, in touch with the educational
movements and tendencies of the time.

I hope all of you enjoyed as much as I
the resume of Miss Glass' chapel talks on
worship. I rejoiced to feel that the Sweet
Briar students could hear those talks from
just such a person as Miss Glass, and it
was fine that we alumnae could also benefit
from them.

And was not each one of you thrilled by
the Registrar's article, "Our Selective Ad-
missions"? Truly the college is doing its
part in the making of "good alumnae."
Let us do our part in keeping ourselves
up to standard after we are made.

All of us, I feel, need to keep in closer
touch with the college — its aims, purposes
and outlook. Some of us, I am afraid,
have no conception of the growth and ex-

pansion of Sweet Briar since we were stu-
dents there. Founded thirty years ago, its
doors opened to a small group of students
twenty-five years ago, the college, after a
quarter of a century, stands today with
the leading educational institutions of the
country. We, as Alumnae, have every
right to be proud of it: we have every
reason to give to it our interest, love and
loyal support. A well-known alumni sec-
retary has said, "In the close inter-relation-
ship between college and alumni, onlv the
fringes of which have been touched lie vast
possibilities of constructive service and of
mutual aid." Realizing the truth of this,
let each one of us resolve to do better each
year her part as an alumna.

Nan Powell Hodges, '10.

EDITORIALS

The College Thinks of its Alumnae

ALWAYS you seem to read of what
the alumnae are doing for the col-
lege and now you have the tables
turned and the college is doing something
for jou. Full explanation of the plan of
the Book Shop Committee will be found in
Miss Eraser's article on "The Student Book
Shop and the Alumnae." A word here is,
however, not amiss, for such a plan de-
serves not only praise from every alumna
but it is bound to receive the heartiest
response from all book lovers. The com-
mittee in offering this plan to you has
thought of all of the details that will sim-
plify your purchases. It has listed for
you the best-sellers at a discount. If any
book is out of stock when your order
arrives, arransiements have been made to

have your order filled and shipped direct
to you from the publisher. While the
Reading Corner is only a few months old
it is one of the most popular places on the
campus for the students and the plan to
serve the alumnae should prove equally
popular to them.

The college has also made it possible for
the Alumnae Clubs to have the use of a
movie film of campus life. This film in-
cludes the laying of the cornerstone of the
Daisy Williams Gj^mnasium, the interior of
the gymnasium showing classes in action,
the library, the Horse Show, the ceremonies
on Foimders' Day at the Monuments and
many other scenes of the buildings and
grounds. This film will be increased from
time to time as events of interest occur.

From Cherry Checks to Golden Galleons

YOLR Alumnae Office has just passed
mid-stream, so to speak, and it is
now up to you whether it sinks or
swims. The office is the only one in the
South that is self supporting, and one of
the few in the country able to pay its own
way. We know that you who have made
this splendid reputation possible, will do
your part to maintain it. Two years ago

cherry colored checks were sent to all
alumnae whose dues were not paid by
March first; the result was very gratifying.
Last year blue checks, with a poem of
"blues" on the stubs, were sent to those
who had not paid by the appointed time,
with equally satisfactory results. This
year we hope to save the postage on these
checks by referring you to page 23.

Sl)Of) "^itl) tl)e Alumnae Office "^Ijeti 4^os5ible

Alumnae News

With the President

PRESIDENT GLASS went to Chapel
Hill on November 11 to attend the
inauguration of President Graham at
the University of North Carolina.

President Glass attended the November
meeting in New York of the advisory group
on College Libraries of the Carnegie Cor-
poration. From this meeting she went to
Montgomery, Alabama, to be present at the
annual meeting of the Association of Col-
leges and Secondary Schools of the South-
ern States.

On January 21 and 22 President Glass
attended the annual meeting of the Asso-
ciation of American Colleges held in Cin-
cinnati, Ohio. At this meeting she was
made a member of the committee on Col-
lege Architecture and the Teaching of the
Fine Arts. President F. C. Ferry of Hamil-
ton College is the chairman of this com-
mittee. Wliile in Cincinnati, Miss Glass
and Mrs. Lill, Registrar, who accompanied
her were the honor guests at a tea given
by the Cincinnati Alumnae Club at the
Queen City Club.

The annual meeting of the Association
of Virginia Colleges was held in Richmond
on February 12 and 13. Miss Glass was
President of the Association and presided
at all of the meetings. She opened the
program with an address on The Teacher
— his ideal qualifications — how he is to be
found — and how he can be kept at his best.

While in Richmond Miss Glass spoke at
the Collegiate School for Girls on "Why I
Would Go To College, and Why If a Rich-
mond Girl To Sweet Briar." Miss Glass
and Mrs. Breckenridge, Alumnae Secretary,
were the guests of honor at a tea given by
the members of the Richmond Alumnae
Club on Thursday, February 11.

President Glass has accepted the invita-
tion of the Board of Directors of the Amer-
ican Association of University Women to
be a member of the committee to study the
criteria whereby the qualification of women
for election to Phi Beta Kappa ma)^ be
determined. The committee will begin its
work on March 21 in New York City. This
study has been asked for by the Committee
on Criteria and Methods of the Phi Beta
Kappa Senate. Those who have accepted
membership on this new committee of the
American Association of University Wo-
men beside President Glass are: President
Woolley. Mount Holyoke College, Presi-
dent Reinhardt, Mills College; President
Blunt, Connecticut College; Dean Morriss,
Pembroke College and Dean Schenck, Bryn
Mawr College.

The Woman's Press, the official publica-
tion of the National Board of the Y. W.
C. A. has, with the permission of The
Alumnae News, printed in part. President
Glass' article on "Worship" which ap-
peared in the December issue of The
Alumnae News.

Sweet Briar College

Alumnae Clubs

Following is a detailed report of the activities
of the various Alumnae Clubs. We are more
than pleased to announce the formation of three
new Clubs: Birmingham, Duluth, and The East-
ern Shore of Virginia Club, also the increased
organization of the New \ork Club. Your Coun-
cil and especially your secretaiy wish to take this
opportunity to congratulate all of the Clubs for
their splendid work during the year. More Clubs
are meeting oftener than previously, and an in-
creased interest in Club activities is constantly
noticed. It is this splendid co-operation and in-
terest that has helped to lighten our burden in
solving the many problems of the year.

AMHERST—Miss Ann Lewis, '30, was re-
elected President of this recently organized Club.
During this past summer the Club gave a bridge
party that was most successful. They plan for
this year's entertainment a play to be given some
time during the coming summer.

BALTIMORE— Miss Elizabeth Ann Marston.
'30, was elected President of this Club for the
coming year. While definite plans for their
spring activities are not completed it is certain
that this well established Club will continue to
do its part for Sweet Briar.

BIRMINGHAM— Miss Mildred Hodges, ex- '33,
was elected President of this, one of our Clubs
organized on Sweet Briar Day this year. For
some time Birmingham has only held Sweet Briar
Day, but they have now organized and plan a
benefit for the spring and are well on their way
to be one of our most enthusiastic groups.

CHICAGO— Miss Louise Lutz, "29, was re-
elected President of this Club at their Sweet
Briar Day meeting, which was held at Maillai'd's.
Chicago is planning an interesting meeting for
April 20, when they will entertain Mrs. Lill,
Registrar, at dinner at the College Club. Mrs.
Lill. who will be there attending the annual
meeting of the American Association of Colleg-
iate Registrars, will take with her the movie film
and will show it at this meeting. From reports
this early a large attendance is expected.

CINCINNATI— Miss Mary Lee, '28, was re-
elected President for the coming year. This Club
had the pleasure of having as honor guests at tea
at the Queen City Club on Januai-y 22, Miss Glass
and Mrs. Lill, who were in Cincinnati attending
the annual meeting of the Association of Ameri-
can Colleges. The eight Cincinnati girls who will
be freshmen next year and their mothers also at-
tended the tea. At present their plans for a
benefit are still uncertain, but whatever this Club
undertakes it always does successfully, so we
know that they will add one more acbievement
to their many this spring.

CLEVELAND— Helen Pennock Jewitt. Acad-
emy, has been elected President of the Cleveland
Club, which is one of our largest and most active
Clubs. Miss Hilda Harpster, "27, attended their
meeting on Sweet Briar Day and spoke to a large

group not only of alumnae but to the many girls
in Cleveland interested in coming to Sweet Briar.
She showed the movie film that has been taken
for the use of the Clubs. A report of her speech
follows the Club reports. This Club as a group
goes one day a month to Lakeside Hospital to
make surgical dressings, beside doing individual
volunteer work in the name of the Sweet Briar
Club at the City Hospital. During the Christmas
holidays they gave their annual subscription
dance at the University Club and the reports show
that it was successful from eveiT standpoint. This
Club also plans a spring benefit and has several
ideas that they are working on but at this time
it is uncertain as to which they will carry out.

WASHINGTON, D. C— Miss Elizabeth Saun-
ders. "30, was re-elected President of this Club at
its Sweet Briar Day meeting, which was a lunch-
eon held at the Shoreham Hotel, and which was
well attended by alumnae and also present stu-
dents. Vivienne Barkaloiv Breckenridge, "18, was
their guest at this meeting and spoke on the
various activities of the college. Early in Decem-
ber they held a rummage sale which was con-
sidered extremely successful. This Club also
plans a spring entertainment for the benefit of
the central office.

DLLUTH — Frances Harrison, "30, reports for
this Club that their luncheon held on Sweet Briar
Day was almost one hundred per cent attended.
Representatives from the Academy and College
through the Class of 1933 were present.

EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA CLL B—
This is one of our newly formed clubs of which
we are proud. Virginia Wilson, "27, was elected
President. This Club plans to hold four meetings
a year, and is enthusiastic over becoming an
active club.

LYNCHBURG— Miss Elizabeth Clark, '31, was
elected President of the Club at its meeting on
Sweet Briar Day. The Club has had several
meetings this year and has voted that each girl
will give a specified amount, the total of which
will be given to the central office.

MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL— This Club,
though one of our smallest in numbers, is ex-
tremely active and never fails to do its share for
the good of their alma mater. They held a meet-
ing on December 1, at the home of their Presi-
dent, Katherine Shenehan Child, "22. This meet-
ing took the form of a supper party. Sweet Briar
Day was celebrated with a luncheon at the Min-
neapolis Woman"s Club.

NEW YORK CLUB (New York City and Nor-
thern New .lersey) — Page Bird Woods, '28, was
re-elected President of this Club at a meeting
held at the home of Edna Lee Wood, "26. on
December 1. The New York Club has decided
to have regional secretaries, thereby making it
possible to keep in closer touch with this large
group. These secretaries are charged with the
responsibility for the various benefits that will be

Alumnae News

given this spring. Each group has had a quota
assigned to it and from past experience with this
veiy active Club it is certain that the goals will
be reached and New York will again be proud of
its achievement. Their meeting on Sweet Briar
Day took the form of a tea held at the home cf
Hirlda IT illiams Lambert, "29, and according to
reports was well attended. On Tuesday, March
15, they held a meeting for the entire group.
Nan Poiiell Hodges, '10, President of the Alum-
nae Association, and Vivienne BarkaJoio Breck-
enridge, "18, Alumnae Secretai-y, were present at
this meeting and both Mrs. Hodges and Mrs.
Breckenridge congratulated the New York Club
on their past accomplishments. Mrs. Brecken-
ridge spoke in detail on "'The Value of Organized
Clubs to the Alumnae Association." The movie
film, which is proving so popular to the Clubs,
w"as shown at this meeting.

PHILADELPHIA— Mai7 Sailer Gardiner. "2.5,
was elected the new President of this Club at
their Sweet Briar Day meeting. This Club is

holding regular monthly luncheon meetings at the
College Club. At their meeting held on March
1, which was extremely well attended, the movie
film was shown. Definite plans for their project
for raising money this spring will be completed
at their meeting to be held on Tuesday, April .5.
Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge, "18, will attend
this meeting and will speak on "What An Alum-
nae Association Means To Its College."

PITTSBURGH— Dorothy Keller, '25, was re-
elected the President of this Club at the Sweet
Briar Day meeting which was held at the Twen-
tieth Centuiy Club. This Club plans to have its
customary rummage sale in April and anticipates
another successful sale. They are already plan-
ning to entertain at tea all Pittsburgh girls who
are now students and all new girls coming to
Sweet Briar for the first time next fall. At this
meeting they plan to show the movie film. This
tea to new and present students is an annual
part cf the program of this very active club.

GROUP OF ALUMNAE OBSERVE SWEET BRIAR DAY IN BIRMINGHAM WITH
LUNCHEON AT MUNICIPAL AIRPORT

Reading from left to right : Mildred Hodges, Hazel Stamps, Patricia Ireland, Mrs. Dave Mar-
Iniry (Mildred Collier), Mrs. Jerome Meyer (Marjorie Abrams), Rosalie Weaver, Mrs. A. B. Frese
(Dorothy Yates I, Sara Harrison, Helen Nice, Sarah Turner and Sarah Turpin.

Sweet Briak College

RICHMOND— Sue Brooke, '29, is the Presi-
dent of tliis veiy active Club. Their lunclieon on
Sweet Briar Day brought out a full attendance
and at this time plans were started for their
Treasure Hunt to be given this spring. Presi-
dent Glass and Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge,
'18, Alumnae Secretary, were the guests of the
Alumnae Club at tea on February 11. After Miss
Glass spoke to the girls on the many plans that
the college is working on, the movie film was
shown. This meeting was well attended with
practically every alumna in town, at that time,
being present.

ROANOKE— Claudine Griffia Holcombe, ex-"ll, .
is the acting representative of this group. On
October 7, Dr. Harley and Vivienne Barkaloiv
Breckenridge, "18, Alumnae Secretary, attended
an alumnae tea at the home of Mrs. Holcombe.
This tea was well attended as practically every
alumna living in and near Roanoke was present.

Dr. Harley talked to the girls on the many im-
provements at Sweet Briar.

ROCHESTER— Helen Goodwin, ex-"32, is the
President of this recently formed Club. While
their plans, which were discussed at their Sweet
Briar Day meeting, are not completed, it is ex-
pected that they will give a benefit this spring.

STAUNTON— This Club reports that their an-
nual meeting held on Sweet Briar Day was well
attended. Their meeting took the form of a
luncheon held at the Mary Baldwin Alumnae Tea
Room and was in charge of Agnes Sproul, '30.

TOLEDO— Charlotte Whinery, '29, is the newly
elected President of this Club. At their S'weet
Briar Day meeting, which took the form of a
luncheon followed by bridge, they voted to con-
tinue their former plan of assessing each girl a
sufficient amount to cover their annual dues to
the Association.

Hilda Harpster, '27, Speaks to Cleveland
Alumnae and Their Guests

(Editor's Note — At the meeting of the Cleviland Club held on Sweet Briar Day, Hilda Harp-
ster, '27, Instructor in Biology at Sweet Briar College, spoke to a group of Alumnae and of seniors
of the Cleveland schools who were gucsts at this meeting.)

For the benefit especially of the high school
seniors. Miss Harpster gave definite information
about the location of the college, the history of
its founding, its growth, and the life there. She
described the lay of the campus, the academic
buildings and living quarters of students and
faculty. In speaking of Sweet Briar as a country
college she said :

"In this beautiful location, with the climate
mild the greater part of the time, we can use to
its full extent the great out-of-doors and learn
to love the hills and woods. While we have all
the advantages which a counti"y life has to offer,
we are, however, near enough to centers of in-
dustry to afford us a needed change. Within
eleven miles is Lynchburg, where we may shop,
go to movies, lectures, and concerts; within five
hours by train is Washington, the national capitol,
^vith its wealth of historical and aesthetic in-
terests; New York is also within reasonable dis-
tance. One can board the train in the evening
at S'weet Briar and wake up the next morning
in New York City. In a country college of this
type there is a wonderful chance for all kinds of
athletics, in the fall and spring, there is swim-
ming, boating, and canoeing, in the Sweet Briar
lake. Other sports include hockey, tennis, base-
ball, hiking. La Crosse, track and riding. During
the winter months the athletics are carried on in
the gymnasium. In this lovely new building there
are facilities for basketball, badminton, tennis,
deck tennis, squash, interpretive dancing, tap,
clogging, gymnastics, and various classes in pos-
ture.

■'Chief among the sports of Sweet Briar is the
riding. This Southland offers a perfect setting
for this activity, with its countless paths, winding
for miles and miles, through the woods and hills.

The college maintains a good stable of saddle
horses w'hich are available to the students. It is
also possible to board your own horse at the
Sweet Briar stable. Eveiy Thanksgiving Day
there is a fox hunt, and to see the men and girls
in their red coats, riding to the hounds seems like
a page out of the past."

-After telling of the social activities and other
"sidelights" of Sweet Briar, she then talked of
the intellectual life and of special phases of de-
velopment in the curriculum.

She drew the following contrast between life
at a university and at Sweet Briar:

"In the first place. Sweet Briar is a small com-
munity, with only four hundred and seventy girls.
It is in many respects like one large family. Al-
though it is not possible to know all of the upper-
classmen, you do know all of the girls in your
class, and the choice of friends, to your own lik-
ing, is unlimited. In a small school you stand
out as an individual and there is the chance to
express and develop any abilities which you may
possess. For example, it is possible that you are
interested in dramatics and even though your
talent is extremely limited you will have your
'inning'; for with the numerous shows and plays
which are given anyone so desiring and having
some talent can participate. In a university on
the other hand, with its thousands and thousands
of students, you are not an individual. You are
simply a part and a veiy small part of a larger
whole. Most of your classmates you never see
outside of the class room so that the percentage
of outside contacts with these people is very low.

"Secondly, in a small college there is more
opportunity for the interchange of ideas outside
of a class room. Living as we do in intimate
groups, you can discuss mth your friends that

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part of your work which has interested you or
perhaps puzzled you. Well do I remember the
evenings spent with some of my best friends dis-
cussing these problems of mutual concern. We
could never seem to agree on anything, and we
were lucky, indeed, if the evening did not end
in a pitched battle. However, the great amount
of pleasure and stimulation that can be derived
from such a meeting, is very evident. Now in
a university on the other hand, where the classes
are veiy large, your outside contacts are much
fewer. Your interests are so diversified that the
interchange of ideas in connection with your work
often necessarily ends with the class room.

"Thirdly, in a small college you are able to
become well acquainted with the members of the
faculty and to get their personal help in your
work. I can assure you that many emergencies
aiise in which you are only too glad for mature
guidance and interest. The faculty of Sweet
Briar College takes special pains to be on friend-
ly terms with the students, in their offices or in
their afternoons "at home" each week when you
can drop in and talk to them. In a university
you are lucky, indeed, if you are on speaking

terms ivith the members of the faculty. More
than likely the professor does not even know that
you are in his class, so that you lose entirely this
friendly touch which may be of extreme value."

Miss Harpster chose three aims of the college
to emphasize: the awakening and satisfying of
intellectual curiosity, the foundation for graduate
study, and the vision and conception of values for
life. In illustrating her point that a college edu-
cation is a means of ""opening doors," she used
the following compaiison:

""Going through college is like a trip through
a beautiful palace. You approach the entrance
with slow steps, full of curiosity and yet hardly
daring to enter. As you open the first door cau-
tiously you see something bright within and you
hurry forward. After examining this object for
awhile, with more assurance you approach and
enter the next room to see what is within. And
then another door attracts you, and so on and on
you go through the entire palace. When you
have finished, complete ownership is not yours,
by no means, and yet you have made an entry
and you can return at will to those rocms w'iiich
you like the best."

Commencement, June, 1932

COMMENCEMENT this year will find
1912 holding its twentieth reunion,
1922 its tenth and 1927 its fifth.
1927 will be the hostess class with 1912
and 1922 as honored guests. According
to the Dix System other reuning classes
this June will be 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917
and 1931. A full and detailed account of
the many interesting events will be sent to
you May first. This is just a reminder so
that you may begin to make your plans to
return June 4-7.

Proposed Change to the Constitution
Article VI— Elections

COMMENCEMENT this June means
that another election time has rolled
around. Your Council feels that
there is a vast majority of members who
are unable to attend the meeting when the
elections take place, yet many of these are
staunch supporters of the Association. It
is for this reason that this proposed change
is made that every one will have the oppor-
tunity to cast a vote for the officers who are
to be responsible for the Association for
the two years for which they are elected.

Your Council, therefore, after due consid-
eration oflfers for your approval Section
VII to Article VI on Elections to read as
follows: Any member of the Association
who is in good standing and who finds it
impossible to attend the annual meeting at
which time the election of officers takes
place, may send her ballot by mail to the
alumnae secretary not later than the Satur-
day preceding the annual meeting. Ballots
sent in without the signature of the sender
will NOT be considered; however, it is un-
derstood that the signature will be cut from
the ballot before it is given to the counters,
and will be held in the strictest confidence
by the secretary.

According to Article XI of the Constitu-
tion, votes by mail at this June election will
be counted, provided the meeting passes the
proposed amendment to Article VI. Arti-
cle XI of the Constitution reads as follows:
This Constitution may be amended at any
annual meeting by vote of two-thirds of all
members present, provided notice of such
proposed change shall have been given at
a previous meeting or put into the call for
the meeting, issued one month previous
thereto.

Sweet Briar College

Report of the Nominating Committee

The Nominating Committee presents the
following candidates for offices for the
Sweet Briar Alumnae Association, for the
election to take place at the annual meet-
ing of the Alumnae Association on the
afternoon of June 6, 1932.

For President:

Elizabeth Grmnmer Torrey, '13.
Fanny Ellsworth Scannell, '21.
Marion Walker Neidlinger, '22.
Edna Lee Wood, '26.

For Vice-President:

Ruth Maurice Gorrell, '14.
Katharyn Norris Kelley, '26.

For Second Vice-President:
Alice Weymouth, '32.

For Treasurer:

Jeanette Boone, '27.

For Council — four to be elected:
Margaret Banister. '16.
Gertrude Dally, '22.
Dorothy Meyers Rixev. ex-'24.
Dorothy Keller, '26.
Gertrude Prior, '29.
Charlotte Kent, '31.

Signed by the Nominating Committee:
Katharyn Norris Kelley, '26, chairman.

Frances Murrell Rickards. '10.

Edith Durrell Marshall, '21.

Ruth Fiske, '22.

Margaret Nelson Lloyd, '24.

Nar Warren Taylor, '27.

The Student Book Shop and the Alumnae

By Jessie M. Fr.\ser
Chairman of the Book Shop Committee

THE Sweet Briar alumna who has not
been on the campus in the past two
years will be particularly interested
to learn of the developments of the Stu-
dents' Book Shop. The Shop has outgrown
the little house tucked away in the box-
wood garden and has built itself a new
brick building of similar rank on the cam-
pus to the Boxwood Inn and has located
it opposite to the Inn.

The Shop rents the first floor of the
building to the United States government.
This is now the college post office, prob-
ablv the most frequented place on campus.
The second floor is divided between the
Book Shop itself, opening toward the main
campus, and a new faculty apartment,
which faces the Inn across the road. The
plan for this building provides a third
storv which will afford the college two
more faculty apartments. The Committee
hopes to complete the building according
to this plan within the next two years.

Among other developments in the service
of the Shop to the students is one that is

likewise a service of the college to her
alumnae.

Since last Christmas the Shop has under-
taken to off^er a stock of books from a wider
field than that of college texts. On enter-
ing the Shop, one now finds an inviting
Reading Corner to the left. Here a delight-
ful hour may be spent in reading the recent
reviews of books and in browsing over a
small stock of best-sellers and interesting
new books in many fields of knowledge.
For the building of private libraries, the
Committee hopes to add, after a while
good editions of standard works. The in-
vestment in this stock will, of course, fol-
low the supply and demand.

This Reading Corner is kept supplied by
the co-operation of the faculty with the
Committee on the Book Shop. The whole
faculty is making suggestions to the Com-
mittee from time to time. Every month
appointed members of the Committee re-
view these suggestions, and the Shop or-
ders accordingly. Thus a selective book
service is offered to our students. And,

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what is important also to the college, this Shop. Orders should be accompanied by

same service is now offered to her alumnae, check or postal money order, payable to
The Committee wishes to sav in this article jyjj^^ ^^^ ^^^ Manager,

that any alumna ot the college may here- ~, „ , , -n , c-i

after call on Sweet Briar for a degree of ^^^ Students Book Shop,

guidance in her reading, and that any order Sweet briar College,

received from her by the Students' Book Sweet Briar, Virginia.

Shop will be filled post-paid to any address ti -e i ■ i i i • i

in this countrv and at a discount of lO^c however, if an order is placed on which

from the list price. ' the price is uncertain or unknown the Shop

will be glad to nil it and mail the bill to

Orders for books which we may not have alumnae of the college,
in stock at the time will be filled directly Since the installation of this new service

from the publishers or dealers and the dis- the best-sellers from the Reading Corner

counted bill will be sent from the Book have been:

Author Title

Adams The Epic of America

Allen Only Yesterday

Anstey Humor and Fantasy

Bridges „ Testament of Beauty

Briggs Pegasus Perplexing

Byrd Little vVmerica

Carroll Alice in Wonderland and

Through the Looking Glass

Cellini _ Life of Benvenuto Cellini

Chamberlain Soviet Russia

Dark _ _ Shakespeare and That Crush

Galsworthy Maid in Waiting

Hulbert _ Forty -Niners

James All About New York

La Farge Sparks Fly Upward

Lawson Hail Colombia

Leonard Two Lives

Millay Fatal Interview

Millay _ ..The King's Henchman

Milne ...Two People

Morley Swiss Family Manhattan

Morsehead Everybody's Pepys

Munthe San Michele

O'Neill Mourning Becomes Electra

Oxford Book of Christmas Carols
Oxford Book of English Verse
Oxford Book of French Verse

Reid .- - The Great Ph)"sician

Relider Best College Verse

Second Book of Modern Verse
Correspondence of Ellen Terry and
Bernard Shaw

Strachey Portraits in Miniature

S. Thompson Novels

Thornton Rock Garden Primer

Walpole Judith Paris

Ward God's Man

Sweet Briar College

From the Art Department

A WATER color exhibit of forty-
three pictures by E. S. Campbell,
professor of Art and Architecture
of the Mclntyre Institute of Fine Arts at
tlie University of Virginia, was on display
during part of January. This exhibit com-
prised scenes taken from travel and study
abroad and also American subjects.

An exhibition also on display in January
in the exhibit hall of the library consisted
of forty copies of drawings executed by
Hans Holbein, the younger, at Windsor
Castle. The collection was loaned to the
college by the American Federation of
Arts. With the Holbein exhibition there
was also one of the George Meredith col-
lection in one of the glass cases in the
exhibit hall of the library. This collec-
tion was given to Sweet Briar College by
the Reverend Elmer J. Bailey. Besides
several first editions of Meredith's novels
there were others of limited editions. In
addition to these volumes the collection
contains a caricature of Meredith by Max
Beerbohm, a bronze medallion of the au-
thor bv Theodore Spicer-Simpson, and a
note on Meredith's funeral by J. M. Barrie.

The oil paintings of G. Thompson Prit-
chard were on exhibit during part of Feb-
ruary in the art room in Academic. The
exhibit consisted of fifteen paintings, most
of which were landscapes and were chiefly
European. Mr. Pritchard is a native of
Australia. He has presented one of his
works to the college.

On view at the college during the first
two weeks of March was the Traveling
Exhibition sent out by the College Art
Association. This was an exhibition of
Seascapes and Water-fronts. Many famous
works were included in this exhibit. The
Ferargil Galleries loaned the following:
Night Clouds, by Albert P. Ryder, Brahms
Marine, by Arthur P. Davies, and The Fish-
erman, by Winslow Homer. The Casson
Galleries, Boston, loaned two beautiful can-
vasses: Miles Out, by Stanley Woodward
and Scenes at Gloucester, by Anthony
Thieme. The Babcock Galleries loaned

Courtesy College Art Association

Night Clouds, by Albert P. Ryder

Coming Storm, by Frederic Waugh, and
Monhegan, by Rockwell Kent. Nubble
Light, 3 orkcliffe, Maine, was loaned from
the studio of the artist, C. K. Chatterton.
Shad Fishermen was also loaned from the
studio of the artist, John Follingsbee. The
Allard Galleries, Paris, loaned Regales —
Mer Bleue, the work of the French artist,
Lucien Simon. This is only a partial list
of the works included in the exhibit. We
are indebted to the College Art Association
for the privilege of printing Night Clouds
and Miles Out.

The college has acquired, partly by gift
and partly by purchase through the College
Art Association, the collection completed
a few years ago under the auspices of the
Carnegie Corporation. The collection con-
sists of more than two hundred books, over
eighteen hundred photographs, and thirty-
five examples of textiles of all of the na-
tions. This collection has been placed in
the special Libraries Room of the Mary
Helen Cochran Library.

Alumnae News

Courtfsv College Art Association

Miles Out, by Stanley Woodward

Sweet Briar Hostess to Advisory Group on
College Libraries

ON Thursday and Friday, January 7
and 8, the Advisory Group on Col-
lege Libraries of the Carnegie Cor-
poration, of which President Glass is a
member, met at Sweet Briar College.

Thursday and Friday mornings and
Thursday night were given over to busi-
ness sessions during which the group com-
pleted allotment of grants in their four-
year program of assistance to liberal arts
colleges, in which time approximately two
million dollars have been spent. On
Thursday, the board lunched with various
faculty members in the refectory; in the
afternoon they visited Lynchburg, Natural
Bridge, and Lexington, and in the evening
were dinner-guests of President Glass at
Sweet Briar House.

Members of the group, which makes up
one of the most distinguished bodies which
has visited the college, are:

Dr. W. W. Bishop, librarian of Univer-
sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Chairman;
Dr. F. P. Keppel, president of Carnegie
Corporation ; R. M. Lester, assistant to Dr.
Keppel; Dr. Frank Aydelotte, president of
Swarthmore College; Charles B. Shaw,
librarian, Swarthmore College; Dr. M.
Lewis, president of Lafayette College; Dr.
Robert L. Kelley, Executive Secretary of
Association of American Colleges; Carl H.
Milam, American Library Association; Dr.
Wm. M. Randall, of Graduate Library
School of University of Chicago; Dr. E.
H. Wilkins, president of Oberlin College;
Dr. Lewis R. Wilson, librarian, University
of North Carolina; Dr. Andrew Keogh,
librarian, Yale University: Dean Virginia
Gildersleeve, Barnard College; H. C. Gour-
lay, assistant to Dr. Bishop ; Dr. Meta
Glass, president of Sweet Briar College.

Sweet Briar College

Concerts and Lectures

SIR NOIBIAX ANGELL spoke in the
Chapel on Friday, January 8, on
"Behind the British Crisis." He said
that "In order that you may realize the
entire situation I must first correct two
misapprehensions. The Labor Party has
not gone out, and the large system of social
service, incorrectly called the dole, is not
such a great burden on Great Britain.''
From this standpoint he reviewed various
statistics of the unemployment insurance,
and the program of the Labor Party lead-
ing up to this crisis.

On Friday, February 12, Mr. Percy
Scholes gave a Lecture Recital on "The
British Contribution to Music." Mr.
Scholes, who is a distinguished English
lecturer and critic, defended his country
against those who call her musically un-
creative. Wliile he freely admitted that
there was a long period in British history
in which little music of note was composed,
he ably presented England's claim to fame
through her fine music of other periods.

Dr. J. J. Van der Leeuw spoke on
"Adventure of a Changing World" at con-
vocation on Thursday, February 18. A
round table discussion followed in the
afternoon on "The Price of Peace — Na-
tional Sacrifice as the Price of Interna-
tional Security." Dr. Van der Leeuw has
but one aim and that is to bring his au-
diences to a realization of what is happen-
ing in the world and to urge them to an
intelligent co-operation with tlie social evo-
lution of our day.

On February 25 Miss E. Jeffries Hein-
rich. Instructor in Citizenship and Govern-
ment at the University of Virginia,- talked
at convocation on "The Machinery of
Peace." In the afternoon Miss Heinrich
spoke on "Ten Years of the Political Edu-
cation of Women." Miss Heinrich was
formerly a regional secretary for the Na-
tional League of Women Voters.

Sylvia Thompson, internationally fa-
mous English novelist and short story
writer, spoke in the Chapel, on February
26. on "Women Novelists — Their Work

and Lives." This is Miss Thompson's first
American tour, but she has had consider-
able experience in speaking in Europe.

To commemorate the one hundredth an-
niversary of the death of Johana Wolfgang
Goethe, one of the world's greatest authors.
Dr. T. Moody Campbell spoke at the col-
lege on Friday, March 4, on "The Person-
ality of Goethe." Dr. Campbell is a nation-
ally famous authority on Goethe, and a
member of the faculty of Connecticut Wes-
leyan University, Middleto^vn, Connecticut.

During the first week in March there
was an exhibit of articles connected with
Goethe in the hall of tlie library. Among
the exhibit were fourteen facsimiles of
rare items in the Speck collection at \ale.
These facsimiles are said to be so like the
originals, that it is almost impossible to
distinguish the copies. Thirty facsimiles
of Goetlie's drawings and sketches, made
especially for this year by the Goethe
Museum at Weimar, were also included in
tlie exhibit. This group belongs to the
library of Connecticut Wesleyan College,
and has just been sent from Germany.
With the lecture and exhibit Sweet Briar
joined the rest of the United States and
Europe in commemorating the deadi of an
eminent author.

Denoe Leedy gave a Piano Recital on
March 11 in the Chapel. Mr, Leedy is a
member of the faculty of the Cleveland
Institute of Music. His recital included
the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue of Bach,
a Chopin Sonata and a group of Moderns.

On March 18, Mr. M. P. Crawford spoke
on "The Relation Between Hand Craft
Weaving and Spinning and Mechanical
Power Weaving and Spinning." Mr. Craw-
ford is on the staff of the Fairchild Publi-
cations of New York and also is connected
with the Museum of Natural History in
New York. He has recently published a
book on "The Heritage of Cotton." He is
a brother of Dr. Lucy Crawford, head of
the Department of Philosophy and Psy-
chology at Sweet Briar.

Alumnae News

The Co-operative Test Service

DR. BEN WOOD of Columbia Uni-
versity' spoke on February 18 to
the faculty and representatives
from neighboring colleges on the '"Co-
operative Test Service," a project of meas-
uring what college students learn. Dr.
Wood illustrated his lecture with slides
and conducted a discussion on the possi-
bility of defining our ideals in liberal edu-
cation and of measuring the progress of
students toward accepted goals.

This project of measurements, which is
planned as a nation-wide program, has
developed from the Pennsylvania study
^vhich investigated the achievement of stu-
dents through secondary schools and forty-
odd colleges over a period of seven years.
The possibility of extending this inquiry
into one of great significance made such
an appeal to the General Education Board
that it appropriated $500,000 to be spent
over a period of ten years to develop ade-
quate tests and to measure college students
by them.

In a recent article in the North American
Review entitled "How Much Do College
Students Learn?" Dean Max McConn
makes the statement that "certain prelim-
inary results of . . . the Pennsylvania
study . . . seem to show that college stu-
dents learn practically nothing, that seniors
within a month of graduation are nearly as
ignorant as freshmen, and in some impor-
tant fields even more so!" Such a state-
ment implies that a very lively discussion

could arise from a presentation of the re-
sults of the Pennsylvania study, since one's
reaction to this observation makes one ask
just what the tests do measure and whether
tests have yet been devised which actually
measure the cultural gain which should be
the valuable residum of a liberal arts
course.

The Pennsylvania experiment has em-
phasized the necessity for defining in
'"exact language just what schools and
colleges aim to accomplish through the
various subject matters of history, mathe-
matics, English and the rest. To find
objectives for educational endeavors that
everyone would accept is an alluring en-
terprise, and if successful would solve
many difficulties. If this could be done it
would be far simpler to prepare tests that
measure progress toward these objectives.

Dr. Wood presented to the faculty some
definitions of goals and explained the kinds
of tests which have been used in Pennsyl-
vania and the kinds which Sweet Briar will
give to their sophomores the third week in
April. Over two hundred colleges in the
country have joined in this co-operative
testing program. These tests will be
graded by the Committee on Co-operative
Test Service of which Dean Johnston of
the University of Minnesota is Chairman
and Dr. Wood Director.

There will be four sections in the tests:
intelligence, general culture, general
science and English.

A Vacation Course at Oxford

In July, 1932, a Summer Vacation
Course for yVmerican Women Graduates
and Teachers will be held for the third
time in Oxford. Those who attended the
Courses held in 1926 and 1928 will know
something of the special character of this
Oxford Summer School, organized by the
four Women's Colleges and the Society of
Oxford Home-Students. The students will
reside for three weeks in the Women's Col-
leges: they will hear lectures by eminent
men and women, authorities in their sub-
jects; tliey will have opportunities for dis-

cussing the topics of the lectures with Ox-
ford University teachers, and they will visit
places of historical and literary association
in the countryside. Concerts and plays and
excursions of architectural interest will
also form part of the program. It will be
an object to give students an insight into
English life as far as possible, and to brmg
them into contact with the Oxford tutors.
The Course will open on Thursday, July
7th, and close on Thursday. July 28th.
1932.

(Continued on page 25)

Sweet Briar College

The George Washington Bi-centennial

UNDER the able direction of tlie
Lnited States Bicentennial Com-
mission tlie comitrv has been thor-
oughly organized to celebrate the two hmi-
dredth anniversar)^ of Washington's birth
from February 22 through to Thanksgiving
Day. It is fitting that Sweet Briar should
join in the nation wide observance. A
committee of tlie facultv, appointed bv
President Glass, has been at work for some
time, arranging for various events.

Our celebration opened on the anniver-
sary itself, with a festive dinner in both
refectories. There were appropriate decor-
ations, a special menu and the singing of
the "Star Spangled Banner." Following
the dinner, a program was held in the
Chapel, at which Miss Glass presided.
Simple, 3'et dignified in character, the ex-
ercises consisted of the singing of "Let Ls
Now Praise Famous ]\len'' and "America"
bv the audience, and centered in an address
on "George Washington — Patron of Learn-
ing," delivered by Professor L. C. Helder-
man of Washington and Lee University.
Dr. Helderman has written a book on this
subject, which is just now in press, and we
were fortunate in being given a previeiv
of its contents. The speaker prefaced his
remarks by saying that Washington, though
not essentially a learned man himself, ap-
preciated and helped to foster learning in
others. In other words he was Roman not
Greek — he was the patron, not the philo-
sopher, of education. Professor Helder-
man then outlined for us Washington's
plans and benefactions in the field of edu-

cation, notably his plan for a national uni-
versity, which never materialized, and his
gift of the James River shares, amounting
to about fifty thousand dollars, to ^^ ash-
ington and Lee Lniversity, which is still
benefiting that institution. The address
was thoroughly scholarly and verj" in-
formative and contributed greatly to the
successful opening of the Sweet Briar cele-
bration.

An exhibit was put on view in the cor-
ridor of the Mary Helen Cochran Library.
This exhibit contained a number of prints,
papers, letters, stamps, and other articles
which are connected with \^ ashington.
Bona fide Washingtoniana are naturally
not very plentiful and if any alumnae have
at their disposal articles suitable for ex-
hibition, which they would be willing to
loan, the committee would be more than
glad to kno\v of them.

A special reserve collection of books bv
and about \^ ashington has been placed in
the main reading room of the library,
Inhere it will remain indefinitely. The
selection is wide, with everydiing from
Parson Weems" "Life of \S ashington" to
Rupert Hughes' latest volume. \ arious
other events, such as the planting of me-
morial trees — cherrv or otherwise — are in
process of formulation. It is the desire of
the college not to evoke a vast deal of un-
diinking blind adulation of this great man,
but to recall the attention of the student
body and of the community generally to
his rightlv important place in our early
history and to the indisputably eminent
characteristics which were his.

The Honor Banquet

THE Honor Banquet was held this year
on Thursday, February 25, in Reid
Refectory. Dr. Carroll M. Sparrow,
Professor of Physics at the University of
Virginia, spoke on "Life and Logic."
Sixtv-nine students made the required aver-
age and attended this banquet. President
Glass in introducing Dr. Sparrow said that
the dinner was not given in honor of the
students but they were invited to attend
this dinner in honor of Scholarship. She

went on to sav that increased evidence of
scholarship and of a quickened interest in it
was shown in the new magazine published
bv Phi Beta Kappa called "The American
Scholar." It is interesting to know that
we did not have to go far to find a distin-
guished speaker so well able to speak on
such a fundamental subject. Dr. Sparrow is
a cousin of Professor Caroline L. Sparrow,
head of the Department of History.

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Preachers to the College

1931

September 20
27

October 4

11
18
25

November 1

December

1932

January

February

March

2 &3
6

13
20

April

10
17

June

The Reverend James A. ^litchell, Alexandria, \ irginia
The Reverend A. Bruce Curry, D.D., Union Theological Seminary,
New \ork City

President Meta Glass, Sweet Briar, \ irginia
The Reverend R. Gary Montague, D.D., Richmond, Virginia
The Reverend Garleton Barnwell, Lynchburg, Virginia
The Re\"erend ^. Aiken Smart, Emory University, Georgia

The Re\ erend Alexander C. Zabriskie, Virginia Theological Seminary,

Alexandria, Virginia
The Reverend William Adams Brown, D.D., Lnion Theological Semi-
nary, New York City
The Reverend Harold B. Peters, Richmond, Virginia
The Reverend W. Taliaferro Thompson, D.D., Richmond, Virginia
Thanksgiving Service — Dr. Marion J. Benedict, Sweet Briar, Virginia
Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, The National Cathedral, Washington,
D. C.

The Reverend W. Cosby Bell, Alexandria, \ irginia
Christmas Carol Service

The Right Reverend Robert C. Jett, D.D.. Roanoke, Virginia
The Reverend Edward B. Willingham, Lynchburg, Virginia
The Reverend Carl E. Grammer, D.D., S.T.M., Philadelphia, Penn-
svlvania

The Reverend Richard H. Lee, Chatham, \ irginia

Dr. Thomas K. Nelson, Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria,

^ irginia
Dr. Hugh Black, Lnion Theological Seminary, New Ttork City
Dr. Edwin W. Slocombe, First Unitarian Church, Lynchburg, Virginia

Dr. A. Bruce Curry. Union Theological Seminary, New York City
The Reverend Alfred Lawrence, The Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill,

North Carolina
Dr. Jerome Davis, \a.\e University, New Haven, Connecticut
The Reverend Alexandria C. Zabriskie, Virginia Theological Semi-

narv. Alexandria, Virginia

Dr. Charles E. Jefferson, New \ork City

The Reverend Kelsey Regen, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Covington. Kentucky

Dr. \\ . E. Rollins, \ irginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Vir-
ginia

Dr. Vincent C. Franks, R. E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church, Lex-
ington, Virginia

Dr. Fletcher S. Brockman, New Vork City

The Reverend Ernest V . R. Stires, All Saints' Church, Richmond,
Virginia

Baccalaureate Sermon. The Reverend Clifford L. Stanley, Virginia
Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia

Sweet Briar College

Plans for the Planting of Sweet B:

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Sweet Briar College

Natalie Roberts, '31, who was Head of Riding 1930-31, has been appointed
the chairman for the Alumnae Class for the May Day Horse Show which will
be held on the morning of May 6. No charge will be made for riding in the
Horse Show. Entries must be sent either to Natalie Roberts, Nestle Brook Farm,
Roanoke, Virginia, or to the alumnae office not later than May first. The class
will be held only if there are four or more entries.

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From the Athletic Department

A new baseball diamond is being laid
out on the far road beyond the gymnasium.
The old diamond is now being diverted in-
to a lawn area.

The grading for the three new teimis
courts has been completed. These courts
are to be back of the gymnasium. A
special surface treatinent has been applied
to one of the old tennis courts to lay the
dust and to obtain a better playing court.

The courts in the gymnasium for tennis,
squash, deck tennis, ping-pong, and bad-

minton have been used steadily all winter.
These sports are not included in the re-
quired work, but are proving popular botli
to the students and the faculty.

Early in February the second drag-hunt
of the season was held over the new course
laid out by Mr. Blackwell, this winter.
More than a dozen riders enjoyed a fast
run with good performances at the jumps
and hounds running as if they were on the
heels of the fox. The riders were enter-
tained at a hunt breakfast at Mrs. Black-
well's following the drag.

May Day

Miss Virginia Hall has been elected May
Queen for this year. The three Honor girls
elected for the May Court are: Miss Edith
Railey, Maid of Honor, Miss Virginia Bel-
lamy, Scepter Bearer, and Miss Jane White,
Garland Bearer.

The May Queen and her Honor girls
have chosen for the court the following:
seniors, Elizabeth Douglass, Sarah Forsyth,
Constance Fowler, Emma Green, Mildred
Larimer, Ann McRae, Emily Maxwell,

Letha Morris, Sarah Phillips, Helen Pratt,
Frances Sencindiver, Sara Shallenberger,
Hazel Stamps, and Alice Weymouth;
juniors, Ruth Davies, Elena Doty, Lois
Foster, Sue Graves, Lena Jones, Ellen
Kelly, Sara Kelly, and Marjorie Ris;
sophomores, Frances Darden, Lydia Good-
wyn, Hortense Hostetter, Louise Moyer,
and Cordelia Penn. The Queen's Page
will be Mary Kate Patton and the fresh-
men Pages will be Louise Wood and Jean
McDaniel.

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Common Sense Week

A new plan for common sense living
during exams was presented by the Citizens
committee to the student body at a special
convocation, Wednesday, January 20.

This plan took the form of an inter-
class contest in healtliful eating, sleeping,
recreation, and exercising. The contest
started Sunday, January 24, and lasted
until Friday, January 29. At the end of
this time a silver loving cup, presented by
President Glass, was awarded to the senior
class, as it averaged the highest number of
points.

Each night before 10 o'clock each girl
added her points and had them checked at
Miss Dix's office.

The points counted as follows: One
point for one-half hour of recreation dur-

ing the day. This consisted of such things
as squash, talking, light reading, and listen-
ing to the radio, or victrola; one point for
eight hours sleep (preferably between tlie
hours of eleven and seven I ; one point for
exercise (preferably out-of-doors) ; one
point for food. This consisted of three
meals a day, and nothing between meals
except fruit, crackers, ice cream, one coca-
cola, and bed-time cocoa.

This plan was not introduced to mini-
mize the importance of examinations but
to point out the fact that there is time for
a normal existence during examinations.

An added feature of the week was a
faculty skit which took the place of the
usual convocation in the form of a "take-
off" on the contest.

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National Student Federation of America

By Alice Weymouth, '32

THE Seventh Annual Congress of
the National Student Federation of
iVmerica was held in Toledo, Ohio,
December 27-31. The University of the
City of Toledo acted as host to the three
hundred delegates who represented more
than six hundred thousand students in the
colleges and universities of the country.

The Federation is a nation-wide under-
graduate organization. Its affairs are con-
trolled bv an executive committee and staff
of undergraduate and young graduate stu-
dents, havina' a central office in New York
City.

Among the regular activities of the Fed-
eration are the weekly news releases sent
to the editors of college papers, an inter-
national debating and speakers exchange,
a survey conducted on student government,
honor systems and publications, semi-
monthly broadcasts over the network of
the Colimnbia Broadcasting Company, and
a well-organized Travel Bureau which ar-
ranges student tours.

Discussion groups, on such subjects as
Student Government, Honor Systems, Pub-
lications and Athletics were held during
the four days of the convention, and var-
ious campus problems were brought out by
delegates, who asked for advice regarding
their solution of these problems. Thus the
delegates got new ideas to take back to
their colleges and universities.

Dr. Ernest Wilkins, President of Oberlin,
addressed the Congress on "Modern Trends
in Education." Dr. Henry Noble McCrack-
en, President of Vassar, spoke on "Are
Students People?" urging closer contact
between the students and die officials of
their college administration.

The great advantages of such a congress
are not shown concretely, but they do exist
in the exchange of ideas among students
from all parts of the country, who return
to their colleges or universities with a
broader viewpoint on the problems of their
own campus affairs.

The American Alumni Council From the Music Department

Mrs. Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge,
alumnae secretary, represented Sweet Briar
on January 22 and 23 at the annual meet-
ing of the Regional Conference of the
American Alumni Council, which met at
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.

She gave two papers at the conference.
The first on "The Business Management
of Alumnae Publications," and the second
dealt with the problems of "Financing An
Alumnae Office." This second paper is
important to the conference because Sweet
Briar has the only Alumnae Association in
the district that is self-supporting.

District number three, to which Sweet
Briar belongs, includes Florida, North Car-
olina. South Carolina, Virginia, Alabama,
and Georgia. — Sweet Briar News.

A Vacation Course at Oxford

(Continued from page 15)

As the number of students who can be

accommodated is limited, applications can

only be received from teachers in approved

universities, colleges and schools, or from

A CONCERT with the Washington
and Lee Glee Club was given on
March 12 in the Chapel. This
was the first big project undertaken by
the senior Glee Club this year and proved
to be a very successful one. The Glee Club
will go to Richmond on Friday, April 29,
to take part in the state music festival. A
concert will be given there on the evening
of April 29, and combined singing of all
the college Glee Clubs present will take
place on Saturday, April 30.

graduates of approved colleges or univer-
sities, not necessarily engaged in teaching.
In exceptional cases applications will be
considered from undergraduates who hope
to take their degree in 1932 and who are
about to enter the teaching profession.

Preference will be given to those who
apply before March 1st, 1932, and candi-
dates are urged for their own sakes to ap-
ply as soon as possible to Miss Marion L.
Day, 39 West 54th Street, New York City.

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Rome in the 1930's

(Editor's Note — Miss Pearl, Instructor in Modern Languages at Sweet Briar, spent 1930-31
abroad continuing her research work begun at the L niversity of Michigan. Slie is making a
catalogue of the sculptures found in Pompeii and Herculaneum. I

N the spring of 1925 I was standing on
a street corner in Rome, waiting for a
tram in the company of a friend who
had just returned to Italy after an absence
of five years. Suddenly she exclaimed,
■"Rome doesn't smell the same this time!"
In answer to my look of surprise, she ex-
plained, "When I was here five years ago,
it was a common occurrence to have a
strike of the street cleaners, or of the city
garbage collectors."

In 1930 I myself returned to Rome after
an absence of three years. In harmony
with my friend I might well have ex-
claimed, not over the change of odors, but
rather "Rome neither sounds nor feels the
same!" In my absence there had been a
marked quickening of the pulse of that an-
cient city. Coupled with a renewed and
active interest in her historic monuments
of the past was a modernity which has led
to widened streets, handsome public build-
ings, elaborate apartment houses, and, best
of all, to the general im_provement of the
mental and physical health of the people.
I am not in a position to discourse on this
last and most important development, but
even the untrained eye can detect the bene-
ficial effects on the youth of Italy. The
impression is one of alertness, physical fit-
ness, and general good looks which is de-
lightful. 'The
voung people in
Rome today are
encouraged t o
pursue sports,
and are proving
their excellence
in a widely di-
versified range
of games and
athletics.

-More than
once Rome's
trend to the
modern has
also uncovered
traces o f her

The Capitoline as seen from the Theatre of Marcellus. 1930

ancient glorv. The most noteworthv case
of this in recent years was the attempted
widening of the via Argentina. In order
to carry this out. a block of old buildings
opposite the Teatro Argentina w-as razed.
But underneath these undesirable buildings
were discovered the foundations of ancier.t
temples, bits of sculpture, and decorative
marbles. So now- instead of merely achiev-
ing a wider traffic lane, the Romans have
their wide street, and also an open space
filled with ancient monuments.

Today in the 'downtown' section of
Rome one sees streets crowded with traffic,
and filled with the bustle and roar of a
large city. The traffic of both vehicles and
pedestrians is regulated by rather diminu-
tive but astonishingly efficient policemen.
Foreigners unfamiliar with the language
and ways of Rome are often unpleasantly
awakened from window-shopping reveries
to find one of these policemen arguing with
them volubly and quite unintelligibly, as
if something in their conduct were terribly
wrong. A little observation will reveal
that the erring foreigner is walking on the
wrong side of the street. To most of us
there is no wrong side of the street unless
we wish to be on the other side, but in
Rome, with its narrow sidewalks, the law
requires the pedestrians walk on the left-
hand side. The
enforcement of
this law in the
busiest streets
requires many
guardians of
order, but the
police force of
Rome, though
small in stature,
is apparently
unlimited in
numbers.

The thrill of
modern Rome is
to step from the
crowded Corso,

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or the via del Tritone, into a side street, and
suddenly find oneself lost in the narrow
winding ways of a Rome of earlier days.
Here the imagination has full sway, and
easily bridges the years, transporting us
to the time when Raphael and Michelangelo
were at their work in the Vatican; and ear-
lier still, when every palace was a strong-
hold, with noble against noble, and Cola di
Rienzi against them all. I can still lose
myself completely and gleefully in the
Campo Marzio — Rome's field of Mars,
now a huddle of steep buildings and nar-
row, irregular streets.

There has been some attempt made to
clean up the slum districts of Rome — with
moderate success. Fine new tenement
houses were built on the outskirts of the
city, and the entire population of some of
the worst sections was removed thither.
The improvement is not always perceptible
to the stranger, except in such districts as
the space around the ancient theater of
Marcellus. Excavations of the last years
have cleared its arcades of their shops, to
the sorrow of the romantically minded, for
these shops were a dirty but picturesque
survival of mediaevalism. Now, from the
theater to the Capitoline hill and the
Piazza Venezia, runs a new, wide thorough-
fare, cutting through what five years ago

Theatre of Marcellus, 1925

Theatre of Marcellus. 1930

was a district of narrow streets and
crowded populace, living in cramped and
dirty squalor. The chief problem in the
older part of Rome might be said to be
to open adequate cross-city traffic lanes
without destroying ancient monuments, or
landmarks of mediaeval and Renaissance
days. The old city, from the baths of
Caracalla to the Piazza del Popolo, is a
huge museum of the architecture of the
ages.

New Rome runs beyond its walls on
every side, and is more like other European
cities. The fashionable quarter, known as
the Ludovisi quarter, is placed beyond the
via Sistina, in the neighborhood of the
Borghese gardens. Here one finds fine
hotels, apartment houses, modern churches,
expensive shops, and private homes of pre-
tension and elegance, set in lovely gardens.
The middle-class people of comfortable
means are scattered over a wider area, but
may be seen in their pleasantest quarters
across the Tiber, some on the Janiculum
at Monteverde, some beyond Saint Peter's
and the Palace of Justice.

So much for the external aspect of the
city. The temperament of the Romans has
not changed so much. The quickened pace
of their life has not robbed them of their

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love of beauty and human companionship,
nor of their ahnost fierce pride in their
native city. Pitiable indeed are the true
sons of Rome who must live away from
their 'immortal Rome.' Exile even to so
near and so charming a city as Florence
is painful to such as they. The modern
Roman still delights to watch the sun set
over Saint Peter's dome as he drinks his
tea in the Pincio gardens. He still enjoys
his morning coffee at Aragno's, and his
Sunday stroll along the Corso. He still
has his passionate love for his children,

and can be seen in the parks and public
gardens pushing a perambulator, or un-
ashamedly embracing a small Toto or
Mimi.

So the new order which prevails in the
venerable city of Rome has not caused the
old order to pass entirely away, but the
contrasts and likenesses revealed enhance
the charm of Rome. Certain it is that who-
ever has lingered there a while leaves the
city of his adoption with regret, and always
returns with overwhelming joy.

Campus News

For your information the total enroll-
ment this year is four hundred and sixty-
nine students exclusive of the four Juniors
in France, where last year the total enroll-
ment was four hundred and seventy, ex-
clusive of the one Junior in France.

New fire escapes have been installed to
replace the old ones. These new ones are
in the same location as the others and an
additional one has been added to the re-
fectory. The fire baskets on several of the
buildings were raised to allow better access.
These new fire escapes are of modern im-
proved design with standard two-foot stair-
way with hand railings on both sides.
They are made of iron and will be painted
black. All of the fire exits have been re-
wired and new signal lights put in.

Professor Hugh Worthington, head of
the French Department, has returned to
the campus following an absence for the
first semester. Mr. Worthington was away
on his sabbatical leave. He spent the
greater part of his time in France.

Dr. Lucy Crawford, head of the Depart-
ment of Philosophy and Psychology,
spoke at the meeting of Virginia Colleges
held in Richmond, February 12 and 13,
on "Student Success with Reference to
Methods of Teaching."

Mr. Reginald W. Martin, organist and
Assistant Professor of Piano, gave an or-
gan and piano recital in the chapel on
February 19.

The new barn, which has recently been
completed at Sweet Briar, has been proper-
ly initiated. On Saturday, December 12,
Mr. and Mrs. Blackwell gave a barn dance
for the students, which took the place of

the regular Saturday night "Gym." The
following Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Blackwell
entertained the faculty at a similar func-
tion. These are the only two real barn
dances that have ever been given here and
proved highly entertaining.

«l

of the
ancient

world

are
statues.

THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES

Jupiter Olympus, sculptured by Phidias in 432
B. C, was of marble, encrusted with ivory, and the
draperies were of beaten gold. The Colossus of
Rhodes, erected by Charles, of Lindus, in 280 B. C,
at a cost of 300 Talents ($285,000.00).

This pretentious archaic statuary, involving arduous
privation and considerable fortunes, had but one pur-
pose-POSTERITY.

MODERN CIVILIZATION, through photo-
graphic record, assures this purpose by eliminating
both privations and fortunes.

Harris & Ewing

Thotographers of J^ational Motables
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Sweet Briar College

Miss Maria Boudreaux, instructor in
Modern Languages, has been awarded the
annual gold medal of the Athenee Louis-
ianais, which is the official group of the
"Federation de L' Alliance Francaise aux
Etats-Unis et au Canada."

This medal was given to Miss Boudreaux
in recognition of her essay on "Evange-
line," which is based upon the legends of
her native town, St. Martinville.

Connie Burwell, '34, led the midwinters
dance which was held in the "Gym" on
Friday, February 5. Virginia Hall, '32,
led the upper class figure. This was the
first dance in the new "Gym."

The presidents of the various organiza-
tions for 1932-33 are as follows: Student
Government, Marjory Burford: Y. W. C.
A., Adah Barber; Athletic Association,
Margaret Austin : Paint and Patches, Enna
Frances Brown.

The Alumnae OfSce is still hunting Briar
Patches to complete the file of these books
in the office. Two girls heeded to our plea
and we are grateful to them for their books.
The missing volumes which we are so anx-
ious to get to bring the set up to date are:
1913, 1915. 1916, 1918, 1919. 1920, 1923,
1925, 1929.

Six large color charts of Sweet Briar
College campus, by Elsetta Gilchrist, '27,
have been on display on the second floor
of Fletcher. These charts represent Miss
Gilchrist's thesis for graduation from the
Cambridge School of Domestic and Land-
scape Architecture. Miss Gilchrist was
commissioned last year by the college to
prepare landscape plans for the college
grounds. (See pages 18 and 19. 1

These thesis charts are painted in red.
green, and tan, and represent a general
plan of a college, a main campus group,
a dairy group, a stable group, and two
charts, one an elevation, of a garden
theatre. In addition to the proposed
theatre, three proposed buildings appear
in the charts: an arts and science build-
ing, a chapel, and a new dormitory.

Other developments are a terraced ap-
proach to the Mary Helen Cochran Library,
and a main entrance court between the
present dormitory quadrangle and the pro-
posed open air theatre in the east dell.

Hazel Stamps, '32, was awarded the
Manson Memorial Scholarship for the
year.

Sweet Briar will again open its gardens
and Sweet Briar House to the public the
week of April 25-30 under the auspices of
the Virginia Garden Club.

Students interested in "careers" will find
interesting information about them in some
books and pamphlets now on a special re-
serve shelf in the Library.

The series of pamphlets, not yet com-
plete on the Sweet Briar shelf, is put out
by the United States Department of the
Interior. A separate pamphlet is devoted
to each of the following professions: law,
medicine, dentistrv. journalism, librarian-
ship, architecture, civil engineering, elec-
trical engineering, pharmacy, nursing, for-
estry, music, and veterinary medicine.
They explain what these occupations are,
what preliminarv education is required,
where professional training is offered, the
length of training necessary, and the ap-
proximate cost of such training.

Students should find some guidance here
in the matter of choosing a profession.

Katheiine Blount. '26, Cornelia Wailes,
'27. and Gertrude Prior. '29. have already
reserved rooms for Commencement.

This Year in Washington

During 1932, Washington— the
city Disioned and found&d by
George Washington— joins with
the entire nation in celebrating
the 200th anniversary of his birth.

Plans for mahing it a notable
period have been under way for
several years, and interesting
events are scheduled during the
spring months, and for Memorial
Day, Flag Day, the June Pageant,
Fourth of July, Labor Day, Co-
lumbus Day, Armistice Day and
Thanksgiving.

Plan now for your trip to Wash-
ington and mahethe Dodge Hotel
your headquarters. The rates are
moderate, and the convenience of
" no tipping " at)J)eals to every
member of the family.

THE DODGE HOTEL

North Capitol and E Street, N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C.

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Class Personals

ACADEMY

1920

The Alumnae Association records with deep
regret the death of Frances Effinger Miller, which
occurred May 8, 1931.

Margaret Eagelsfield Bell is doing landscape
architecture and interior decorating in Cleveland.
Ohio.

Elizabeth Gwun was married recently to Mr.
Hugh Deming Stillman.

Enid Sipe Brent has returned to the United
States, after spending two years in the Philippine
Islands. She is now living at Fort Banancas,
Florida.

Florence Gage White has an antique Shop in
Willoughby. Ohio.

\ irginia McEican Gaerste, with Mr. Gaerste,
is spending six months in South America.
1910

Nan Powell Hodges has been spending several
weeks in New "Vork City visiting her brother.

1912

Reunion 1932.

Hazel Lane, ex-'12, spent the summer abroad
and took four weeks of lecture courses at Oxford.

Marie Abrams Lawson, e.x-"12. is the author of
"Hail Columbia," the book selected by the Junior
Literary Guild as their book-of-the-month for
NovemlDer.

1913

Elizabeth Franke Balls has returned after
spending several years in Prague. Czechoslovakia,
and has moved to Washington. D. C, to live.

Linda Wright, ex-'13, is teaching piano and ap-
preciation of music in La Jolla, California.

Maiy Clark Rogers, ex-'13, has moved to At-
lanta, Georgia, to live.

Reu

1932.

1914

191.5

Reunion 1932.

Martha Hines, ex-'15, is now Mrs. D. L. Dixon,
and is living in Kingston, North Carolina.

Dorothy Brothers Kelly, ex-'1.5, is the general
manager for her husband's architectural firm.

Anna Kills Reed, ex-"15, has a daughter, Anna
Wills, born December 1.

1916

Reunion 1932.

Rachel Forbush Wood, ex-'16, has a son. Jared
L^vin. Jr., born on November 6. The Woods are
now living at Fort Benning, Georgia, where Cap-
tain Wood is stationed.

1917

Reunion 1932.

Hazel Roberts Peck, ex-'17, spent last summer
in Europe motoring through France, Italy, Sivitz-
erland, Germany, and England.

1919
Caroline Sharpe Sanders is spending the winter
in New York City.

Marie Wiener Manz spent the summer with her
two children in Berlin.

Elmyra Pennypacker is to be manied to Her-
man Wills Co.xe on April 16.

Helen Beeson has returned to Columbus, Ohio,
to live, and is connected w-ith a specialty shop for
women.

Ruth Hulburd Luff worked during the holidays
in the toy section of a department store in
Cleveland.

Alleine Hicks, ex-'20, has been working in New
York for the past four years.
1921

Fanny Ellsworth Scannell, with her children,
is spending the winter and late spring in France.

Mary McLemore Matthews has a new daughter,
Margaret Montgomeiy, born in August.

Julia Albers Echols, ex-'21, has a baby daughter

Ophelia Short Seward, ex-'21, has a daughter,
Betsy H.

1922

Reunion 1932.

Gertrude Dally has been studying harmony and
Dalcroze Euiythmics in Pittsburgh. At present
she is visiting in Hartford, Connecticut.

Lillie Maddox Whitner has a son born last
October.

Catherine Cook spent a week during the holi-
days in New York, and attended the Sweet Briar
Day meeting there.

Maylon Newby Pierce is living in Coral Gables,
Florida.

Hathaway W right Rinehart, ex-'22, has a baby
son.

Leah Hines, ex-'22, is now Mrs. Booker Cun-
ningham and is living in Wilson, North Carolina.

1923

Lorna Weber Dowling and Margaret Mierke,
"22, have been teaching dancing this fall in Cleve-
land, Ohio.

LaVerne McGee was married last spring to
Lieut. Alfred C. Olney, and is now living in
Pensacola, Florida.

MARION DEARBORN, an Alumna,
who has been connected -.Kith, the trans-
portation department of the Southern
Railway for fifteen years, and who has
had experience in personal conducting,
is organizing a European tour especially
for Sweet Briar students and the alumnae.
Sailing from New York July 1, 1932, and
returning August 29, 1932. All inter-
ested in joining this lour can get details
by writing —

(Miss) Marion H. Dearborn, Organizer

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Sweet Briar College

Gertrude Geer Bassett has two sons. Thomas
and Robert.

Katherine W'eiser Ekelund and her two daugh-
ters, Sally and Mary Sue, are in Pontiac, Michigan

Isabelle Deming Ellis, ex-'23, has a son, Robert
Richardson Ellis III, born October 4.

Helen Fossum Davidson, ex-'23, has a daughter,
Margery Louise. She is now living in Hinsdale,
Illinois.

Frances Insley Jacobs, ex-'23, has a daughter,
Frances Kent, born last April.

Helen Burke Janney, ex-'23, has a son, Doug-
lass, born last February.

Jessie Morton Wolfe, ex-"23, has a second son,
Robert Wing, born in October. She is now re-
siding in Burlingame, California.

1924

Kathi'yn Klumph McGuire has been taking a
course in modern dancing at the Cleveland In-
stitute of Music, in Cleveland, Ohio. She directed
one of the children's plays for the Junior League
recently.

Helen Mowry Johnson is now Mrs. Walter C.
Fell, and is now residing in San Francisco, Cali-
fornia.

Frances Nash Grand has another daughter,
Nell, a year old.

Muriel MacLeod Searby has a daughter, born
in December. She is now at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Emily Plummer Heinen. ex-'24, is taking Ger-
man and Philosophy at Rice.

Byrd Fiery Bowman, ex-"24. has a daughter,
Nancy Byrd, born last fall.

Elizabeth Hamann Easley, ex-"24, has a daugh-
ter, Elizabeth Fredonia, born Januai7 27.

Martha Cooper Judy, ex-'24, has two children,
Joan and Mills Cooper.

1925

Lorraine ^McCrillis is teaching history in the
high school at Hackensack, New Jersey.

Mazie Lee Vernon has been awarded a prize
for her review of '".Autobiography of Lincoln
Steffens."' This review appeared in the February
issue of the "Golden Book."

Mary Nadine Pope has announced her engage-
ment to Mr. Carrington Brush Phillips of Barber-
ton, Ohio. During the Christmas holidays she
visited Mary Reed Hartshorn.

Louise Gibbon Carmichael and her small
daughter. Louise, spent the Christmas holidays
in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Adelaide Harris Holmes and her son, James D.
Ill, are visiting for several months in Concord,
her old home.

Mary Doivds Houck played the leading role in
a play produced by the Shaker Players. Shaker
Heights, Ohio.

Martha McHenry Holter has a son, Frederic
Arnold, Jr.. born last October.

Cordelia Kirkendall Buckman, ex-"25, spent the
month of November visiting in Wilkes-Barre, New
York, and Boston. While in Lancaster she
visited Susan Haaer Rohrers.

Tallulah Holloway, ex-"25, is Assistant Super-
intendent of Schools in Falls County, Texas.

Margaret Freeman Sherdabl, ex-'25, has a
daughter, born recently.

Elizabeth Early Dickerson, ex-"25, has a daugh-
ter, born last fall.

Evelyn Pretlow Rutledge, ex-'25, has moved to
Lakeland, Florida.

Irene Beasley, ex-"25, is broadcasting over the
Columbia Broadcasting System on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday at eight-forty-five a. m.,
and over WCSV and WABC at nine-fifteen p. m.
on Thursdays.

Louise Durham Meade, ex-'25, with her two
children, Sally and Walter, Jr., is spending the
winter in Miami Beach, Florida, and will not re-
turn to her home in Wisconsin Rapids until late
Spring.

Mollie Meriwether, ex-'25, is working on the
staff in the Registrar's Office at Barnard College.
She is taking a secretarial course at Barnard and
will receive her certificate this June.

Lucille Smith Bauer, ex-"25, has a new baby
daughter, Eugenia Bradley.

Louise Wade, cx-'25, spent a week in February
visiting Elizabeth Manning Wade, '25, at her home
in New York.

Helen Rugg, ex-'25. is now Mrs. Horace Condit
and is living in Wilmette, Illinois.

Mary Aleshire Klein. ex-"25, has moved to
Helena. Montana, to live.

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1926

Elizabeth Cobh Sutherland has moved to At-
lantic City to live.

Polly Gary Dew was married on February 27
to Mr. William Woodson of Richmond, Virginia.
They were married in the church in Amherst,
Virginia. Eleanor Miller Patterson. '2.5, was one
of the attendants. Mr. and Mrs. Woodson, after
a honeymoon trip in Florida, will live in Cleve-
land, Ohio.

Gudrun Eskesen was married last summer to
Mr. Newell Adams Chase and has moved to Cran-
ford. New Jersey, to live.

Mildred Lovett is teaching school in Hunting-
ton, West Virginia.

jNIargaret Krider Ivey has a son, James Gordon,
born last November.

Dorothy Bailey Hughes has a son, George
Bailey, born Januaiy 17.

Martha Close Page spent the Christmas holi-
days in Pittsburgh. She attended the Pittsburgh
meeting of tlie Alumnae Club on Sweet Briar
Day.

Margaret Laidley, who spent the Christmas
holidays at her home in Pittsburglt, has returned
to Charlottesville to continue her nursing course.

Katherine Blount has returned to her home in
Brooklyn, New York, after spending several days
with Katharyn Norris Kelley in Lexington,
Massachusetts.

Katharj'n Norris Kelley spent a ^veek on
campus the middle of Januaiy.

Frances Eoff, ex-'26, was married last October
in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Mr. Claude Null.

Marion Crane, ex-"26, is now Mrs. James J.
Paterson.

Sarah McKinney Groner, ex-'26, has moved
from Washington, D. C, to Hastings-on-the-Hud-
son. New York, to live.

Carol de la Hunt, ex-'26, is teaching art and
speech at Bay View High School, in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.

1927

Reunion 1932.

A daughter, Joan Garland, was born to Dorothy
Garland Gustavson on December 4.

Millicent Milligan was married in January to
Mr. Walter Harold Hitchman. The wedding took
place in Los Angeles, California.

Dorotliy Conaghan was married October 24 to
Mr. William J. Bennet. After a honeymoon spent
in Honolulu, Hawaii, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have
moved to Cleveland Heights, Ohio, to live.

Elizabeth Bachman is now Mrs. Kendrich C.
Hardcastle, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle spent
their lioneymoon on a Cambbean Cruise, stop-
ping several days in New Orleans, Louisiana, en
route.

Virginia Stephenson is working for the Child
Welfare Board of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis-
consin.

Mary Kent Robbins Ailing has a daughter,
born last spring. Tlie Allings are now living in
Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Margaret Cramer is the librarian at tlie Cleve-
land Institute of Music.

Mildred Wilson was married in the fall to Mr.
Theodore Stanford Garnett, Jr.

Evelyn Anderson has announced her engage-
ment to Mr. Richard Toll.

Elizabeth Miller Allen is living in Cincinnati,
Ohio.

Margaret Leigh Hobbs has moved to Balti-
more, Maryland, to live.

Doris Beri-y, ex-"27, ^vas married recently to
Mr. William A. Rountree of Chattanooga, Ten-

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Theodora Cheeseman, ex-'27, spent four months
last summer in northern Michigan and while
there she attended the Bay View Summer School,
taking a course in Zoology.

Genevieve Black Newton. ex-'27. has moved to
Seattle, Washington, to live.

Mary Thomson Hanod, ex-"27. has a daughter,
Martha Elizabeth.

Lucy Scott McKenzie, ex-'27, was married
December 19 to Mr. John Harvie Price and has
moved to Montgomery, Alabama, to live.

Louise Harper, ex-'27, is working in a depart-
ment store in Philadelphia.

Anne Ashurst Gwathmey, ex-"27, is working in
a bookshop in New York City.

Julia Reynolds Dreisbach, ex-"27, has a second
daughter, Jerry Lou. They are now living in
Flushing, Long Island.

1928

Anne Harrison Shepherd visited Grace Sunder-
land Kane during the Christmas holidays, and
joined the Kanes on a trip to Monterey, Mexico.
Later she visited Sarah Dance Krook in Tulsa.
Oklahoma, and from there she went to Lexington,
Kentucky, to visit Winifred t( est Madden.

Elizabeth Prescott Balch has a daughter, Cyn-
thia, sixteen months old. Katherine Emery has
been visiting the Balch's at their home in Utica,
New York.

Marion Taber Maybank has a son, David, Jr.

Anne Beth Price was married on December 25
to Mr. Harold F. Clark of New York City and
has moved there to live.

Marion Sumner is teaching at the Lee School
in Boston, Massachusetts.

Alice Babbitt is now Mrs. James Cunningham
Hackley.

Marguerite Hodnett recently announced her
engagement.

Ella Polk, ex-'28, is now Mrs. John A. Brough
and is living in New York City.

Eleanor Gibbs, ex-'28, was married last fall to
Dr. Herman J. Brueckner. Dorothy Meginniss,
'28, was a member of the wedding party.

Elizabeth Miller Foote. ex-'28. was married on
January 14 to Mr. Don Hugh Gearheart.

Elizabeth Woodward, ex-"28. was married re-
cently to Mr. Henry Jeffers, Jr., of Plainsboro,
New Jersey.

Katherine Owens Price, ex-'28, is now living
in Beaumont, Texas.

Mary Nelms. ex-"28, was married recently to
Mr. Joseph H. Locke.

1929
Ann Conway is studying architecture in Boston.
Jessie Exley is now Mrs. Henry Johnson Woot-
en and is living in Rome, Georgia.

Mildred Bushey was manied on Marcli 1 to Mr.
Joseph Walter Scheer, Jr.

Eva Cumnock and Charlotte Conway, '28. are
working at Lord and Taylors.

Sarah Dodgen MacGuire has moved from her

home in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to live in
New York City.

Anna Garnett Torian has received her M. A.
in History from the University of Georgia

Mary Copeland Sturgeon has moved to Mem-
phis, Tennessee, to live.

Katherine Ramage Smith was married January
2 to Mr. Garland Cecil Boothe.

Kathryn Close is doing family welfare Avork
in Pittsburgh.

Kate Coe is taking a course in Applied Art in
the Art School at the Roerich Museum in New
York City.

Liza Guigcn is one of the four Albntina Rasch
specialty dancers in "The Cat and the Fiddle,'"
now playing in New York City.

Frances Puckett Muir, ex-'29, has a son, Donald
Ewart, born last July 7.

Jane Wilkinson, ex-'29, is doing photography
work and is specializing on children and gardens.

Barbara Lewis, ex-"29, was married on February
11 to Mr. Edward Douglas Howard, II.

Evelyn Bye Ross, ex'29, has moved to St. Louis.
Missouri, to live from her home in Cincinnati.
Ohio.

Marjorie Fish Elliott, ex-"29, is now living at
her home in Laredo, Texas, and is working for
the Texas Mexican Railway Company. She has
one son, Charles Wendel.

Edna Earl McGehee, ex-"29, is chief dietitian
of the Marion City Hospital in Marion, Ohio.
1930

Wilhelmina Rankin is studying for her master
degree in Latin at the New York Lhiiversity. In
the January issue of Latin Notes she has an ar-
ticle on An Evaluation of the Symposium, in the
December Latin Notes, entitled "Do I Like
Latin?"

Mary Huntington is spending the winter at her
home in Rome, New York, and is taking a busi-
ness course.

Gvi'endolyn Olcott is one of the secretaries at
the Dwight School in Englewood, New Jersey.
She has also been giving some instruction in
hockey. She entertained Elizabeth Boone, Mary
Douglas Lyon, and Elizabeth McCrady during a
week-end in February.

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Norvell Rover is ivorking at the Provident Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company, in Richmond. Vir-
ginia.

Elizabeth ]\IcCrady is studying kindergarten
work at Teachers College, Columbia.

Sarah Clarke de Saussure was married on Feb-
ruary 9 to Mr. Cornelius Elliott Heath.

Both Elizabeth Boone and Mary Douglas Lyon
are taking secretarial courses.

Eunice Walters, ex-'30, is teaching Latin in
Franklinville, New York.

Ruth Hendri.x, ex-"30, was married December
30 to Mr. Charles Brawner.

Hallie Williamson, ex-'30, was married recently
to Mr. Patterson Caywood and is living in New
York City.

Josephine Ahernethy TuiTentine, ex-'30, has
moved to New York City to live.

Virginia Dey Chard, ex-'30, is now living at
Camp Meade, Maryland, where her husband,
Lieut. Chard is stationed.

Elizabeth Thomason Griffin, ex-'30, with Mr.
Griffin has returned to Chicago to live.

Virginia Louise Leigh, ex-"30, was married Feb-
ruar>- 1 to Mr. William Postell Witsell, Jr.

Margaret Pleasants, ex-'30, has a kindergarten
in Huntington, West Virginia.

Rachel Buchanan Ferguson, ex-"30, was married
December 29 to Mr. Andrew Wallace Wells.

Georgie Wilson, ex-'30, was mamed February
6 to Mr. Oscar A. Mockridge of Montelair, New
Jersey.

1931

Reunion— 1932.

Margaret Lee is studying for her M. A. at the
University of Cincinnati.

Margaret Gillette was manied on February 6
in the Little Church Around the Corner to Mr.
William R Newton.

Matilda Fontaine Jones was married on Jan-
uary 18 to Mr. John Joseph Shillington and has
moved to Webster Groves, Missouri, to live.

Elizabeth Stribling is studying portrait painting
at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. She was
one of the attendants in Matilda Jones' wedding.

Frances Whitehead is teaching mathematics in
the Norview High School, Norfolk County, Vir-
ginia.

Virginia Quintard has been tutoring in tlie
Lucy Paxton Country Day School in Stamford,
Connecticut. She plans to take a business course
this spring.

Jane Tucker was manied on February 6 to
Mr. HaiTy Elmer Ferrell of PottsviDe, Pennsyl-
vania.

Mary Lou Flournoy is enjoying a Mediterra-
nean cruise and does not plan to return to Nor-
folk until late spring.

Mary Whitfield Pearsall is taking a business
course at the Motte Business College in Wilming-
ton, North Carolina.

Jessie Hall has returned to her home in Wil-
mington, North Carolina, from spending several
weeks in New York City.

Charlotte Kent is in New York where she will
spend several weeks.

Isabel Solomon is doing charity work in the
Mount Sinnai Hospital in Cleveland. Ohio.

Mary Lynn Carlson has announced her engage-
ment to Mr. Hugher King of Darlington. South
Carolina.

Elizabeth Conover has announced her engage-
ment to Mr. George Gratton. Ill, and will be
married in June.

Sue Haskell. ex-'31, has been studying Journal-
ism at the University of Georgia.

Louise Wilson. ex-"31. was manied recently to
Mr. Fillmore N, Brist.

Mary Katherine Pape Sack, ex-"31, has moved
to East Orange, New Jersey, to live.

Virginia Bradley Buitows. ex-'31, is a senior in
the Wheelock School for Kindergarten in Boston.

Betty Goff. ex-'31, has announced her engage-
ment to Mr. Donald Newhall of Minneapolis,
Minnesota.

Elizabeth Greer. ex-'31, has been visiting her
cousin, Elizabeth Phillips, '31, in Memphis, Ten-
nessee.

Sara M. Foster, ex-'31. is studying dramatic
art at the Alviene School of the Theatre, New
York City.

Dorothy Ayres. ex-"31, will be married on April
2 to Mr. John Holt. She was on campus recently,
stopping en route to her home from Florida.

Polly Swift Calhoun, e.x-'3I, with her husband,
is spending two months abroad.

EX-1932

Sarah Ison was married recently to Mr. Louis
Andrew Hawkins, Jr.

Margaret Blaikie has just completed her secre-
tai-ial work in connection with the publishing of
the "Economic Sur\'ey of the Book Industry."

Helen Pauline Goodwin has announced her
engagement to Dr. Kenneth Hutton LeFever of
Kinston, New York. They plan to be married
this fall.

Mildred Hodges made her debut in Birming-
ham, Alabama, this winter. She returned to the
college earlier in the year for a visit.

Frances Jeffers is making her debut in San
Antonio this winter.

Virginia McGehee has announced her engage-
ment to Mr. Walter Marion Ross of Louisville,
Kentucky. The w-edding will take place the last
of .A.pril.

EX-1933

Mary Garv'er is attending the University of
Kansas this -svinter.

Etliel M. Cameron is living at home this winter
and is doing volunteer social service work at
Bellevue Hospital, the Riis House Health Center
and with the Speedwell Societv in New York
City.

Lucy Moulthrop has announced her engagement
to Mr. James Halloway Alexander of Lexington,
Kentucky. She plans to be married on April 2.

Sweet Briar College

Janet MacGregor has been visiting Elizabeth
Taylor at her home in Richmond. ^ irginia. Both
she and Elizabeth returned to the college for a
visit during part of Februaiy.

Elizabeth Schlenck has announced her engage-
ment to Mr. Kendall Campbell of Cincinnati,
Ohio.

Margaret Nelson has announced her engage-
ment to Mr. WilUiam Hartman of Cincinnati,
Ohio.

Clara If est Stark has a son. Thomas, Jr.. born
Januaiy 17.

EX-1934

Mai-y Goode Krone is doing secretarial work
for a firm in New York City. She is also con-
tinuing with her French and is doing some organ
work.

Helen L. Murray has been doing volunteer li-
braiy work at one of the hospitals in Yonkers,
New York. She is also coaching basketball to
a group of poor foreign girls.

Priscilla Waterman Mullen is taking a course
in Physical Education at the North Carolina Col-
lege for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina.

FORMS OF BEQUEST

/ give and bequeath absolutely to Siveet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ , to be invested and from time to time

re-invested by said Corporation as il shall deem best, and to

be called the Endowment Fund. The

interest and income therefrom shall he applied by said Cor-
poration to the payment of the salaries of its teachers as il
shall deem expedient.

I give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the surn

of $ - , to be used and appropriated bv said

Corporation for its benefit in such manner as il shall deem to
be most useful.

I give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ , to be invested and from time to time

re-invested by said Corporation as it shall deem best, and to

be called the Scholarship Fund, the

interest a?id income to be applied by said Corporation to the
aiding of its deserving students in Sweet Briar Institute or
College.

ALUMNAE NEWS

SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE

JUNE
1932

SWEET BRIAR, VIRGIKIA

PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

Volume I Number 3

^iticct 15nat 3Iumnae Bfms

Editor — Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge, '18

Table of Contents

The Cabin Frontispiece

New Officers of the Alumnae Association 3

Editorials 3

To All Sweet Briar Alumnae 4

Commencement, June, 1932 5

Commencement Address by Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth 5

The Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association 8

The Report of the Alumnae Secretary 9

Ten Years Out 11

Announcements Made at the Commencement Exercises 12

Honors Awarded at Commencement 12

Graduates of the Class of 1932 13

Alumnae Attending Commencement : 14

Alumnae Banquet in Honor of the Class of 1932 16

History of the College 1900-1906 17

An Economist's View of the Present Depression 22

The Flapper of 1796 25

Sweet Briar May Court 27

The French University and the American Student 28

The Sweet Briar Horse Show 31

The Sweet Briar Glee Club 32

Campus News 33

A Portfolio of Sweet Briar Views 34

Class Personals 36

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PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

Four times a year — March, June, October and December

Subscription Rate — Sl-00 a year; Single Copies, 30 Cents

Entered as Second Class Matter, November 23, 1931, at the Post Office, at Sweet Briar,

Virginia, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

THE CABIN
The Office of the Alumnae Associalicin

EDITORIALS

Officers and Members of the Council

To the outgoing officers and members of
the Council of the Sweet Briar Alumnae
Association we are deeply grateful for
their invaluable advice and untiring efiforts
during the past two years that they have
been in office. Always willing to do their
part in helping to solve the many problems
that have confronted the office during this
time, they have co-operated to the fullest
extent and have cheerfully and wisely
shared the responsibilities placed upon

them. It has been my privilege to work
with them, and their confidence, patience,
and support have been more than appre-
ciated.

To our new officers and members of the
Council, just elected, we extend our heart-
iest congratulations and sincere good
wishes for their future work. It is to them
that we shall look for guidance and in-
spiration during these trying times.

New Officers of the Alumnae
Association

We take pleasure in announcing the elec-
tion of the following officers for 1932-1934.

President — Mrs. John Clark Wood, nee
Edna Lee, '26.

Vice-President — Mrs. Stillman Kelley,
II, nee Katharyn Norris, '26.

Second Vice - President — Alice Wey-
mouth, '32.

Treasurer — Jeannette Boone, '27.

Council — Margaret Banister, '16; Ger-
trude Dally, '22; Dorothy Keller, '26; Ger-
trude Prior, '29.

The Alumnae News

The issuance of the third number of the
Alumnae News for 1931-1932 brings to our
attention the excellence of this publication,
and the rapid progress it has made during
the year. It deserves praise in itself, as
well as for being a record of events of
Sweet Briar and its alumnae.

One of the first articles in the News re-
minds us that the Sweet Briar Alumnae
office is the only one in the south that is
self-supporting. The organization is to be
complimented on the efficient management
which makes this possible, and to be
wished the best of luck in keeping up

this record. The pages devoted to the
activities of the various clubs show that
our alumnae are not failing in their in-
terest and that throughout the United
States the members are keeping in contact
with one another and with the college.

After looking through the Alumnae
News, one cannot help feeling keenly the
alumnae's interest in Sweet Briar and its
interest in them. The editor may well be
congratulated on the production of such
an organ. — Sweet Briar News, March 24,
1932.

To All Sweet Briar Alumnae

From Nan Powell Hodges

To the Alumnae:

Sweet Briar has just completed its 26th
year! As we look over the list of its stu-
dents and see there the names of daughters
of some of the alumnae, we realize that
soon it will no longer be classed as a
young college. The years of its life are
increasing rapidly and, with each added
year, our college is taking unto itself
greater prestige and honor in the educa-
tional world.

It is a real joy and satisfaction to feel
that the Alumnae Association is keeping
pace with the college in its growth and
development and increasing influence.
These last two years our association has
branched out in many directions; and since
I have been able to do so little towards
bringing about this growth, I can at least,
without any embarrassment, point out some
of its features to you and give the credit
where it is due.

The alumnae office — owing to contribu-
tions from the various clubs and the busi-
ness ability of our secretary, who seizes
every opportunity to sell plates, etchings,
etc. — is, even in these days of depression,
in excellent financial condition. With re-
markable ingenuity, our secretary has our
magazine well on the way towards being
a financial asset rather than a liability.
All of you, I am sure, have noted, with
interest and pleasure, the changed and en-
larged character of the magazine.

A number of new clubs have been
formed, and consequently an increased
number of alunmae are participating in
the "Sweet Briar Days." May I, in this
connection, urge the older alumnae to affil-
iate with these clubs and to attend their
meetings? It was my privilege, while
visiting in New York City this spring, to

attend a meeting of the New York Club —
a delightful meeting, with a splendid group
of the younger alumnae present; but so
very few of the older ones! Our love for
and interest in Sweet Briar should sur-
mount all question of age. Whether you
are a 1932 graduate or a 1910 graduate,
you have Sweet Briar in common. Isn't
that in itself enough to make you want to
see and know each other? No girls who
have lived on that campus, rambled
through those hills, and watched the Sweet
Briar sunsets can ever be strangers to each
other.

Our secretary has been able to attend a
number of the club meetings and to give
to the various groups the inspiration of
her enthusiasm. She has also enlarged the
influence of the association by attending
and speaking at a number of alumnae con-
ferences. I have heard from an outside
source that, in these conferences, our Sweet
Briar alumnae office was considered one of
the best managed in the South.

The years seem to me so few since we
were a straggling group of graduates, with
a great deal of love and loyalty for our
college, but with no efficient organization
and consequently no real accomplishments.
It does my heart good to see us as we are
today — an incorporated association, work-
ing in increasingly enlarging spheres for
a great cause and a great college.

I could not close this message and my
two years as your president without ex-
pressing my heartiest congratulations to
the association and to your secretary, and
without wishing God-speed to your new
president in all that she may undertake for
the welfare of Sweet Briar.

— Nan Powell Hodges, '10.

Alumnae News

Commencement, June, 1932

Commencement Address — Techniques of Success
Delivered by Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth

(Editor's Note — Mrs. Lillian Moller Gilbreth, president of Gilbreth, Incorporated, consulting
engineer, delivered the Commencement address at Sweet Briar on Tuesday, June 7.

Besides being the mother of twelve children, Mrs. Gilbreth is at present a member of the Ameri-
can Management Association, the Institute of Management, the Taylor Society, the Society of Me-
chanical Engineers, the Institute of the Scientific Management of Poland, and honorary member of
the Society of Industrial Engineers.

She obtained her Bachelor of Literature and her Master of Literature degrees at the University
of California. Since her marriage she has obtained her Ph.D. at Brown, in 1915; her Engineering
degree at the University of Michigan, in 1928, and her Doctor of Engineering degree at Rutgers in
1929.

Mrs. Gilbreth has written Time Study; Fatigue Study; Applied Motion Study; Motion Study for
the Handicapped ; and in co-authorship with her husband has written The Psychology of Management.
Her latest book is The Home Maker and Her Job.

The following is an abstract of the address:)

AT this time, when the world is fac-
ing so many problems, it would
seein specially necessary to con-
sider people and methods that have been
proved successful. Failures are useful if
they show the way to avoid difficulties, —
but successes may show this toe, and have
the added advantage of attracting one to
imitate them.

A philosophy of life and the belief that
life is worth living, is interesting, and fur-
nishes a series of problems that challenge
one to solve them, — these have proved a
tremendous advantage to those who have
them, during these years of stress. The
ability to detach oneself from one's per-
sonal situation enough to look at it dis-
passionately and plan the wisest way to
work through, — this is something we must
all cultivate.

There was never a time when it was
more important to study econoinics. Not
only in order to understand great world
problems, but to make oneself better able
to participate, possibly as producer, and

certainly as a consumer and a wise-spend-
er. For we are coming to realize that the
economics of wise spending are a vital part
of individual as well as of business, indus-
trial, and government efficiency.

There are certain other techniques of
individual and group efficiency that have
demonstrated their usefulness with great
clarity, these past years. It is necessary
to be physically adequate. This ineans not
only developing all the strength, endurance
and fitness that one has, but adopting
health habits that maintain such adequacy,
even when there is most temptation to
slump. The men and women who have
done this have been able to swing through
hard jobs, and to do that thing that is
even harder, to turn from lighter to heav-
ier work, easily and successfully. The
"White Collar" worker, the student, the
homemaker who has confined her activities
to the planning, — these people if they had
developed techniques of physical adequacy,
have in many cases turned to the jobs that
meant manual labor, and found not only

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that they could do them, but could enjoy
them, because of the physical activity that
they involved.

Another technique that has proved its
use is that of keeping mentally alert.
Knowledge and schooling, degrees and
technical training are tremendously useful
IF the person who has them has used them
constantly, has kept them up to date, but
especially if he has kept mentally alert to
learn more. If he has not, he had not
been able to meet the changes often made
necessary by shift of the job, or trying for
a new one. This has been a time where
alertness has been stacked against school-
ing, (or, perhaps better stated opportuni-
ties at school I and where alertness has
proved its superiority. Our educational
system has been challenged, as to the way
in which it fosters and develops alertness,
and it is to its credit that it is meeting the
challenge by a most intensive survey of its
plans, its methods and its results. The
college trained man or woman owes his
education the debt of proving that it has
been serviceable in keeping him alert-
minded.

A third technique that has proved its
use is that of maintaining emotional sta-
bility. Serenity is necessary, if we are to
think clearly. And only clear thinking can
lead to wise action. We must look at our
own behavior and make sure that we are
adding to serenity, stability, security, not
subtracting from it. We must evaluate
every group activity in our community,
as it adds to or subtracts from serenity.
There is such a thing as the ''divine dis-
satisfaction" of which the poets sing, but
it is not shown bv destructive thousht or

feeling. It seems specially necessary that
the young men and women coming out of
the colleges in such vast numbers during
these weeks shall appreciate the groups
that are trying to give a lift to the spirits
of men, whether they happen to sympathize
with their doctrines and ceremonies or not.
It is a time for appreciation, not clever
but often very superficial irony.

A fourth technique that we need and
tliat has shown its usefulness is social ad-
justment, the ability to work and play with
other people. Education is recognizing this,
by stressing "facing reality," "training
to meet life situations," "pleasurably con-
ditioned learning," etc.. which implies that
we learn so successfully, in our own opin-
ion and that of others, that we want to
practice what we have learned. Social ser-
vice and welfare work are realizing this,
when they stress "Sartorial smartness," not
so much for the impression that an appro-
priate appearance gives to others, as to the
help that it is toward maintaining one's
own morale.

\^ e are coming to realize that success lies
not only in the results, as they are evalu-
ated by others and by oneself, but in the
attaining of the results and in the satis-
factions that come during the attaining as
well as in the results. This makes the tech-
niques all the more serviceable and im-
portant. We may yet come to look back
on a period, that to us who are living
through it. seems one of great stress and
strain, as a time when techniques W'Cre
tested and when valuable ones were recog-
nized, and hence adopted and made efficient
habits.

Alumnae News

MRS. JOHN CLARK WOOD

Edna Lee Wood, '26, newly elected President of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation. She comes to this office well informed on alumnae activities and
is fully equipped to carry on the work so ably done by the preceding
Presidents. During the campaign of 1928 Edna as the Field Director for
the Midwestern Area won a host of friends in that large territor\ that
was her responsibility. It is with great pleasure that we welcome her
and turn over to her the reins of tliis high office for the next two years.

Sweet Briar College

Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association

June, 1932

The regular annual meeting of the Sweet
Briar Alumnae Association was held on
Monday, June 6, 1932, in Fletcher Audi-
torium. Miss Margaret Banister, '16, for
six years the president of the association
and at present a member of the Council
presided, in the absence of our president,
first vice-president and second vice-presi-
dent. Miss Banister opened the meeting
by reading the following telegram from
Nan Powell Hodges, '10, retiring president
of the association. "My thoughts have been
constantly with you alumnae who are at
Sweet Briar at this commencement. In
spirit I have followed you through every
pleasure which I know you are having
there. Greetings and best wishes for each
one of you for the association and above
all for Sweet Briar. Sweet Briar of the
past the present and the future." The
Secretary was instructed to wire Mrs.
Hodges the regrets of the members present
at her being unable to attend this com-
mencement. The minutes of the last meet-
ing were approved as published in the
Alumnae News Bulletin, November, 1931.
The reports of the Secretary and Treasurer
were read and accepted. Reports were
given from the following Alumnae Clubs:
Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Washington, D. C. Lynchburg, New York,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Rochester, and
Toledo. Discussion followed as to fre-
quency of meetings, money raising projects
and other activities of the various Clubs.
Opinion was general that rummage sales
proved to be an adequate means of raising
money. Puppet shows were especially re-
commended. Many of the Clubs reported
the policy of entertaining some time during
the summer the girls who were to enter as
freshmen in the fall.

The Secretary read the two recommenda-
tions of the Council. First, that Section
Vn to Article VI on Elections be included
as a part of the constitution, this section
to read as follows: Any member of the
Association who is in good standing and
who finds it impossible to attend the annual
meetina; at which time the election of offi-

cers takes place may send her ballot by
mail to the alumnae secretary not later than
Saturday preceding the annual meeting.
Ballots sent in without the signature of
the sender will not be considered, although
it is understood that the signature will be
cut from the ballot before it is given to
the tellers, and will be held in the strictest
confidence by the secretary. Katherine
Blount, '26, moved and Henrietta Wash-
burn. '14, seconded the motion to adopt
this recommendation. The motion carried.
Second, the Council recommends that offi-
cers of the Alumnae Clubs he elected not
later than November first of each year.
Catherine Cordes Kline, '21, moved and
Marion Shafer Wadhams, '21, seconded the
motion to adopt this recommendation. The
motion carried.

The letter of President Glass of April
22, 1932, that was sent to all alumnae so
situated geographically as not to be in-
cluded in local Alumnae Clubs, was read.

The Secretary announced the details in
regard to the Alumnae Banquet and the
Academic Procession for Commencement
morning.

The Secretary gave a detailed account of
the exhibit of special alumnae activities,
outside the academic field, that she had
seen at Randolph-Macon Woman's College.
This exhibit proved of such value to the
alumnae of Randolph-Macon that your sec-
retarv felt that similar information should
be in the office and requested that all alum-
nae engaged in special work please notify
the office at their earliest convenience.

There being no further business the meet-
ing stood adjourned with a rising vote of
thanks to your Secretary for the success of
the office, this vote being made on motion
of Claudine Hutter, ex-'lO.

Respectfully submitted,
ViviENNE Barkalow Breckenridge,
Alumnae Secretary.

(Secretary's Note: The Council instructed the
secretary to omit from the printed minutes the
two recommendations concerning the Boxwood
Inn and publicity.)

Alumnae News

The Report of the Alumnae Secretary

With the closing of the fiscal year 1931-
1932 the Sweet Briar Alumnae Association
finds itself, where it rightfully belongs,
taking its place with the associations of
the larger and older colleges. Beginning
with October of 1931, each month through
June of 1932 is memorable for widening
and broadening the scope of alumnae ac-
tivities and also for the business accom-
plishments of your alumnae office. Per-
haps the greatest accomplishment of the
current year is the change in the policy
governing alumnae publications. This
change was made possible after weeks of
research work, on the part of your secre-
tary, to deterrriine exactly what an alumnae
publication should contain and how often
it should be published. The final result,
as you know, is the Alumnae News, pub-
lished four times a year under our own
permit, and with national "ads" to help
in defraying the additional expenses in-
curred in publishing two more issues than
was formerly possible. It is hoped that
in time the alumnae publication can be
put on a paying basis, and that time may
not be far distant. October was a busy
month with completing arrangements for
the change of size and style of the Novem-
ber Bulletin. October was also the start
of your secretary's visiting many of the
Alumnae Clubs this past year. On October
7, 1931, Dr. Harley and your secretary at-
tended the alumnae meeting and tea given
by the Roanoke Club at the home of Clau-
dine Griffin Holcomb, ex-'ll.

Early in November we began work on
the movie films that were to be ready for
use on Sweet Briar Day and thereafter for
all of the Alumnae Clubs that wanted them.
This film includes many of the interesting
events of campus life and has been sent to
most of the Clubs for use at their meetings.
This film was also sent to the Englewood
Chapter of the American Association of
Llniversity Women for use at their annual
meeting held recently at the Dwight School.
In December the first issue of tlie Alum-
nae News to carry advertisements was pub-
lished. This issue contained the announce-
ment of additional china; tea sets, tea cups

and saucers, tea plates, and bread and
butter plates. Already many orders have
been taken for these new pieces of china
to match the plates that have become a
necessity for every alumna's home. Sweet
Briar Day, according to reports of the
Presidents and Representatives, was well
attended everywhere, Pittsburgh having the
largest number present and San Diego, the
smallest. Three new Clubs were formed
on this day, Birmingham, Duluth, and The
Eastern Shore of Virginia Club. Hilda
Harpster, '27, was the guest and speaker
of the Cleveland Club and your secretary
was the guest and speaker of the Washing-
ton. D. C, Club.

In January Miss Glass and Mrs. Lill
were entertained by the Cincinnati Alum-
nae Club at a tea given at the Queens City
Club. Late in this month your secretary
attended the Regional meeting of the
American Alumni Council which was held
at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
At this meeting Sweet Briar was congratu-
lated on the financial success of its alum-
nae office. While there your secretary
spoke on '"The Business Management of
Alumnae Publications" and also on "Fi-
nancing an Alumnae Office."

February found your Council at work
on plans that would permit every alumnae
to vote by mail. Full details of this plan
were printed in the March issue of the
Alumnae News and will not be repeated
here. On February 11 Miss Glass and
your secretary attended a tea, given in their
honor, by the Richmond Alumnae Club.
Miss Glass talked to the girls about the
many interesting things that are being done
at college, after which the movie film was
shown.

Another Alumnae News reached you in
March. This issue carried the new and
interesting information regarding the an-
nouncement of the Book Shop Committee
and its service to alumnae everywhere.
On March 15 your president. Nan Powell
Hodges, '10, and your secretary attended
the monthly meeting of the New York
Club. Mrs. Hodges spoke on alumnae ac-
tivities in general and your secretary, after

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outlining the many problems confronting
every alumnae office, spoke particularly on
"The Value of Organized Clubs to the
Almnnae Association." While your presi-
dent and secretary were in New York they
signed a contract with The Graduate Group,
Inc., which means that this firm will be
instrumental in securing national "ads" for
the Alumnae News. In the March issue of
the Junior League Magazine, which was an
Educational number, there is an article on
Sweet Briar College by your secretary.

On April 5, Dr. Carl E. Grammer, Presi-
dent of the Board of Overseers and Presi-
dent of the Board of Directors, and your
secretary attended the monthly meeting of
the Philadelphia Alumnae Club. Dr.
Grammer reviewed some of the interesting
history of the early life of the college and
announced with the greatest pride that his
new little granddaughter, the daughter of
Dorothy Grammer Krauter, ex-'17, had
been registered to enter Sweet Briar in
1950. Your secretary spoke on "What
an Alumnae Association Means to its
College." The Chicago Alumnae Club
entertained Mrs. Lill at a luncheon at the
College Club on April 20 at which time the
movies were shown. Mrs. Lill spoke on
"Recent Developments at Sweet Briar."
The Richmond Club had as their guests
the Sweet Briar Glee Club on April 29 and
30.

May first the Commencement letter was
mailed to everyone. This letter contained
the details of the arrangements for return-
ing alumnae, together with the program
for the four days of festivities at this time.

During the May Day week-end more than
thirty-five alumnae were on campus. Eight
graduates entered the Alumnae Class in the
Mav Day Horse Show. Miss Maher do-
nated a riding crop as a first prize for this
very special class.

The customary follow up checks that
have, in the past, been sent to alumnae not
paying their dues by March first, were
omitted this year and the plea for dues

went out in the March issue of the Alumnae
News. Page 20 of this issue was paid for
by the Athletic Department as it contained
the announcement of the Alumnae Class at
the May Day Horse Show. This gift
amounted to $6.50.

We are indebted to Martha Hines Dixon,
ex-'15, for her copy of the 1913 Briar
Patch and to Elizabeth Eggleston, '19, for
the Briar Patches of 1918 and 1919, and
to LaVern McGehee Olney, '23, for the
1920 annual. This leaves only five more
to complete the file in the office, of these
valuable books.

One page of the 1932 Briar Patch con-
tains a picture of die Alumnae Office and
an article on the value of the central office
on the campus. This page is the gift of
the Class of 1933.

The Sweet Briar News has continued its
policy of co-operation and has given space
each week for alumnae news items.

The sale of plates, etchings, and air-
plane pictures continues satisfactory.

The Alumnae Office gave one of the
prizes for Clean Up Week. This prize
amounted to $2.00 and was won by Hen-
rietta Martin, '34.

During the past eight months more than
25.000 letters, bulletins, and circulars have
left this office, an increase over last year
of nearly 10,000. Of this number thirty-
two pieces of mail have been returned un-
claimed. This means that thirty-two mem-
bers of the Association have been "lost."
While this is twenty-five less than last year,
it is regrettable that any member should
have to be permanently taken from the
alumnae list just for the lack of an ad-
dress. Every effort is, however, being
made to locate these missing alumnae.
Please help to lighten the burden of this
office by sending in your change of address.

Respectfully submitted,

ViviENNE Barkalow Breckenridge,

Alumnae Secretary.

ALtMKAE News

Ten Years Out

Bv Amey Smyth, '22

A decade of being an alumna — then
to return, and look, and wonder.
For while we have been learning
to live, growing up by degrees. Sweet Briar
too has been growing.

"It's ideal, with the new gym, the stables,
and student privileges," we said, enviously,
recalling the congestion and conventions of
ten years ago.

"We still have classes," reminded a se-
nior; "have you seen the library before
exams :

So they balance, studies and athletics,
just as they always did. Sweet Briar is
essentially the same. Only, like ourselves,
she is — well, maturing — we cannot realize
that we are ten years older. Even the
height of old spruces and the spreading
deodar beside the Cabin will not force us
to admit that!

And yet, so much has happened since
June, 1922 : Fergus Reid, a new dormitory,
Fletcher Hall, the Daisy Williams Gymna-
sium, the Boxwood Inn, the Mary Helen
Cochran Library, the Infirmary, the Book
Shop, and the many attractive faculty
homes. It looks as though a greater Sweet
Briar were already budding and preparing
to blossom.

Present day students are fortunate in
their modern equipment, their wider range
of interests in their activities and classes.
We doubt whether they love Sweet Briar
more, or get more out of the college ex-
perience than we did in our day. These
things are relative to the individual and
the times. Clear vision, a level head,
imagination, must be in the personal re-
cipe, nowadays more than ever.

Looking back, ours were good years;
many old faces have disappeared; we our-
selves are no longer carefree. For a few
days it is pleasant to remember those four
years, to sink into the old college atmos-
phere ( unchanged in spirit for all the out-
ward changes I , to view the old life through
the windows of our ten years' experience in
a larger world. Now as always, we are
proud of Sweet Briar and believe in her
future.

And — the joys of getting back —

Tin YLAR6 OUT

Gertrude hoWy 22 , Amey 6myth 22,
Burti Dic/ism c5teven5 'Z2, GdtherincOooK 22,,

"There's Doctor Harley, bless her red
hair!"

"The lake gets as muddy as ever."

"Miss Dix says she can't furnish towels,
wouldn't you know it?"

"Any mail for me, Gert? Tom said he'd
write me."

— just as in the old days!

It's no use — we could go on indefinitely.
Sweet Briar in May and June — the poetry
of that beloved old garden by moon or
sun-light — the thrill of mingling familiar
sights with new impressions, and knowing
they belong to us, as we to them — it's all
a part of "re-uning."

Of course the final play. Baccalaureate
Sermon, the alumnae banquet in honor of
the seniors, and the commencement exer-
cises, are integral parts of it. But they are
not entirely what we return for. It is to
renew old friendships, to see the dreamed-
of hills, a haven from the world we have
known since graduation, to walk the quiet
colonnades, to drink again the wine brewed
in this magic atmosphere — that is what a
Sweet Briar reunion means to most of us,
even youngsters of 1922.

12 Sweet Briar College

Announcements Made at the Commencement

Exercises

The following gifts were made to Sweet
Briar College during 1931-1932:

S7,000 from the Carnegie Corporation
of New \ork, the last of four such gifts,
for the development of the library.

The library has also received 379 vol-
umes and 180 pamphlets as gifts during
the year. The Browsing Room has re-
ceived a gift of S250 for books from the
Brambler — a college publication.

A painting, "A Scene on the Loire,"
given by the artist. Mr. G. Thompson
Pritchard.

A collection of Mound Builder artifacts
given by Mrs. W. F. Garth, whose daughter
was a student at Sweet Briar in 1909-1910.
and whose granddaughter. Alice Estill, is
now a student at Sweet Briar.

A gift from individual alumnae, giving
S3 each, now totalling §223. toward an

emergency fund for special student aid
next year.

A gift of S25 from the Washington Club
of the Alumnae Association for the student
emergency fund.

A gift of S472.00 for the construction
of the Reflecting Pool and future plantings
in front of the library, from the classes of
1932 and 1933.

S7,000 from the Carnegie Corporation
of New York, to be used in 1932-33 in
support of the college's program in the
arts.

A gift of S700 from the Briar Patch of
1931: S353.8.5 from the Dance Committees
of 1931-32: and §900 from the Student
Government Association: totalling S1.953.-
85 as the initial endowment for a scholar-
ship fund.

Honors Awarded at Commencement

SENIOR HONORS

Special Honor Students:
Flench — Highest Honors:
Edith Marshall Railey

Greek and Latin — Highest Honors:

Marcia Lewis Patterson
Departmental Honors:
Biology:

Irene Garrison Kellogg
Economics and Sociology:

Eleanor Franke
English:

Alice Saunders Dabney

Marjorie Miller

Hazel Stamps
French :

Sarah Bright Gracey

Emma West Green

Barbara Munter
Greek and Latin:

In Latin —
. Susie Ella Burnett

In Greek and Latin —

Sarah Rice Johnson Forsyth
Historj' and Government:

Dorothy Allen Smith

Interdepartmental Major:

In Revolution and Romanticism-
Margaret Bennett

COLLEGE HONORS

Margaret Bennett
Susie Ella Burnett
Sarah R. J. Forsyth
Eleanor Franke
Anne Armistead McRae
Barbara Munter
Marcia Lewis Patterson
Edith Marshall Railey
Dorothy Allen Smith

HONORABLE MENTION

Alice Saunders Dabney
Irene Garrison Kellogg

FRESHMAN HONORS

Eleanor Ann Elliott
Julia Moss Peterkin

SOPHOMORE HONORS

Marjorie Jane Snuth
Alice Graham Shirley

JUNIOR HONORS

Mary Greenwood Imbrie
Helen Martin

Alumnae News

Graduates of the Class of 1932

Degree Name Address

A.E. Ainsworth, SallT

325 North Broad Street,
Thomasville, Georgia

A.E. Bellamy, Vir°;iriia

611 "Market Street,
Wilmington, Xortli Carolina

A.B. Bennett. Marsaret

Greer, South Carolina
A.B. Bryan, Henrietta

United States ilarine Hospital,

Savannah, Georgia
A.B. Buist, Gertrude

414 Pendleton Street, Greenville,

South Carolina
A.B. Burnett, Susie

Jasmine Hills, Peachtree Road,

Atlanta, Georgia
A.B. Cochran, Courtenay

Jefferson Park, Alexandria, Tirginia
A.B- Dabney, Alice

University, Virginia
A.E. Doughtie, Elizabeth

726 College Street, Helena, Arkansas
A.E. Douglass; Elizabeth

1316 South Perry Street,

ilontgomery, Alabama
A.B. Fisher, Jessie

3724 Potomac Avenue, Highland Park,

Dallas, Texas
A.E. Forsyth, Sarah

Esmont, ^"irginia
B.S. Fowler, Constance

50 Eeeehing: Street,

Worcester, Massachusetts
A.B. Franke, Eleanor

1412 St. James Court, Louisville, Kentucky
A.E. Gibbons, Mildred

823 South Delaware Avenue,

Tampa, Florida
B.S. Gilbert, Anna

3405 Ashley Terrace, "Washington, D. C.
A.B. Gracey, Sarah Bright

960 Hickman Road, Augusta, Georgia
A.B. Green, Emma

220 North 15th Street,

Wilmington, North Carolina
A.B. Groner, Stuart

700 Westover Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia
A.E. Hall, Margaret

109 North 15th Street,

Wilmington, North Carolina
A.B. Hall, Tirginia

120 Herbert Street, Cedartown, Georgia
A.B. Harrison, Sarah

3818 Cliff Road, Birmingham, Alabama
A.B. Hays, Jane

222 Bower Hill Road, Mt. Lebancti,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A.B. Higgins, Elizabeth

70 Tompkins Street, Cortland, New York
A.B. Job, Elizabeth

2000 Lexington Avenue,

Ashland, Kentucky
A.B. Kellogg, Irene

Gildersleeve Wood, University, Virginia
A.B. Kerr, Ruth

44 Green Street,

Wollaston, Massachusetts
A.B. Larimer, Mildred

3240 19th Street, N. W.,

\\ ashington, D. C.
A.B. McRae, Anne

49 Rue Moliere, Shanghai. China
A.B. MagoflSn, Charlotte

Portage Point, Deer*.\'ood, Minnesota

Degree

Name

Address

A.B. Magruder, Betty Allen

100 West Jefferson Street,
Charlottesville, Virginia

A.B. Malm, Marion

2683 St. James Parkway,
Cleveland Heights, Ohio

A.B. Marshall, Susan

111 Middle Street, Portsmouth, Virginia

B.S. Mattingly, Eleanor

Bealeton, Virginia
A.B. Maxwell, Emily

1511 Lee Street, Charleston,

West Virginia

A.B. Miller, Marjorie

Cote de Neiges Road, Montreal, Canada

A.B. Morris, Letha

500 Oakland Avenue,
Pasadena, California

A.E. Munter, Barbara

Custom House, Boston, Massachusetts

A.B. Nightingale, Helen

14412 Drexmore Road, Cleveland, Ohio

A.B. Pancake, Mary Moore

120 East Frederick Street,
Staunton, Virginia

A.B. Patterson, Marcia

37 Hilton Avenue, Hempstead, New York

A.B. Phillips, Sarah

1766 Harbert Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee

A.B. Pratt, Helen

Forest Glen, Maryland

A.B. Railey, Edith

Versailles, Kentucky

A.B. Remon, Ruth

3104 33rd Place, N. W., Washington, D. C.

A.B. Sencindiver, Frances

102 Tennessee Avenue,
Martinsburg, West A'irginia

A.E. Shallenberger, Sara

The War Department, Washington, D. C.

A.B. Sherman, Theda

3324 Newark Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

A.B. Smith, Dorothy

Box 1395, Charlottesville, Virginia

A.B. Smith. Adelaide

1901 East 2ud Street, Duluth, Minnesota

A.B. Squibb, "^'irginia

Grey Manor, McMillan Street,
Cincinnati, Ohio

A.B. Stamps, Hazel

841 Myrtle Street, N. E., Atlanta. Georgia

A.B. Stone, Beatrice

The Plains, Virginia

B.S. Uber. Elizabeth

221 Emerson Avenue,

Aspinwall, Pennsylvania
A.B. Ward, Marjorie

2211 Boulevard, Wilmington, Delaware

A.B. Ware, Mary

Pedlar Mills, Virginia
A.B. West, Elizabeth

623 Baldwin Place, Norfolk, Virginia
A.B. Weymouth, Alice

152 Central Avenue, Flushing, New York
A.B. White. Jane

804 South Jefferson, Mexico, Missouri
A.B. Wilson, Nancy

University, ^"irginia
A.B. Wright. Eleanor

The War Department. Washington, D. C.

Sweet Briar College

Alumnae Attending Commencement

ACADEMY

Margeiy Cox White

1910
Anne Cumnock Miller
Eugenia Griffin Burnett
Frances Murrell Rickards

EX 1910
Claudine Hutter

EX 1911
Claudine Griffin Holcomb

1913
Rebecca White Faesch

1914
Henrietta Washburn
EX 1914
Elizabeth Anderson Kirkpatiick

1915
Frances Pennypacker
EX 1915
Jessie Darden Christian

1916
Margaret Banister

1917
Polly Bissel Ridler
Henrietta Crump
Rachael Lloyd Hoyt
Bertha Pfister Wailes

EX 1917
Anna Beveridge Leake
Ria Thomas Glass

1918
Margaret McVey

1919
Rosanne Gilmore

1920
Dorothy Wallace

EX 1920
Lucille Barrow Turner

1921
Catherine Cordes Kline
Mary McLemore Matthews
Marion Shafer Wadhams
Elizabeth Shoop Dixon
Miriam Thompson Winne

EX 1921
Mildred Ellis Reed

1922
Catherine Cook
Gertrude Dally
Burd Dickson Stevenson
Elizabeth Huber Welsh
Amey Smyth

EX 1922
Marguretta Carper MacLeod

1923
Marie Klooz
Richie McGuire
Lydia Purcell Wilmer

EX 1924
Jacquelin Franke Charles

1925
Elizabeth MacQueen Nelson
Mary Sailor Gardiner

1926
Katherine Blount
Edna Lee Wood

EX 1926
Gertrude Clark Carlson
Marion VanCott Borg
1927

Elizabeth Bachman Hardcastle

Jeanette Boone

Madeline Broun Wood

Mai-y Close Gleason

Caroline Compton

Margaret Cramer

Elsetta Gilchrist

Hilda Hai-pster

Elizabeth Miller Allen

Elise AJorley Fink

Pauline Payne

Jane Riddle

Nar Warren Taylor

1929
Belle Brockenbrough
Mildred Bushey Scherr
Anne Mason Brent Winn
Sally Callison Jamison
Katherine Close
Meredith Ferguson
Hallet Gubelman
Mai-y McDiarmid
Gertrude Prior
Josephine Tatman

EX 1929
Edna Earl McGehee
Margaret Cucullu
1930
Elizabeth Boone
Grace Ferguson
Mary Douglass Lyon
Elizabeth McCrady
Maiy Macdonald
Gwendolyn Olcott
Mildred Pickett
Elizabeth Saunders
Maiy Walker
Adelaide Wampler

EX 1930
Margaret Weisiger
1931
Elizabeth Clark
Jean Cole
Margaret Ferguson
Mary Lou Flournoy
Jessie Hall
Caroline Heath
Frances Kelly
Charlotte Kent
Virginia Keyser
Fanny O'Brian
Elizabeth Phillips
Virginia Quintard
Mary Leigh Seaton
Man' Frances Westcott
Peronne Whittaker
Ella Williams
Nancy Worthington

EX 1933
Mildred Hodges
Elizabeth Young

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h^r^et Boniater '16, Gertrude Prior'29,
Gertrude liBlly '2Z

Iranois jnurr£ltti\Qt^Qrd5 '10,

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Sweet Briar College

PROGRAM

DR. MARY HARLEY
Honorary Member Class of 1932

Saturday, June 4

5:00 P. M.— Senior Garden Party.

8:00 P. M.— Final Play.

10:00 P. M.— Movies of the Campus,
Alumnae and Guests: 21 Academic.
Sunday, June 5

11:00 A. M. — Baccalaureate Sermon, the
Reverend Clifford L. Stanley, Virginia The-
ological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia,

5:00 P. M.— Step Singing.

6:00 P. M.— Vespers, in the Dell, Pi-esi-
dent Glass.

10:30 P. M.— Lantern Night.
Monday, June 6 — Alumnae Day

1:00 P. M.— College Luncheon for the
Graduates, Alumnae, Faculty and Guests.

2:00 P. M.— Alumnae Meeting, Fletcher
Auditorium.

6:30 P. M. — Alumnae Banquet for the
Seniors.

Tuesday, June 7

10:00 A. M. — Commencement Exercises:
Conferring of Degrees; Address, Dr. Lil-
lian M. Gilbreth, Montclair, New Jersey.

Alumnae Banquet in Honor of the Class of 1932
By Gertrude Prior, '29

"We see again the old familiar funny
faces." "We hear the old voices; how well
we do remember some of the voices!" —
"Miss Glass, she speaks for herself" — "I
am most capable of introducing the next
speaker after having studied for four vears
under her the subject of track" — "We will
now sing the Sweet Briar Song"^ — "Good
night" — These are some of the high spots
in the toast-mistress' part in the Alumnae
Banquet held this June at Sweet Briar.
There is no doubt that the success of this
function was in great part due to Pauline
(Pewre) Payne, class of '27.

With nearly 100 alumnae, guests, and
members of the class of 1932 present, there
is no editorial comment in the fact that the
banquet was enjoyed by everyone. The
food was good, the table decorations were
artistic, the spirit was high.

After the opening roll call when mem-
bers of each class rose, the first person to
speak was Miss Glass. She gave a com-
pact and highly interesting talk on Scholar-
ship and Honors, foreign Study, and the

Development of Art Studies in the college.
She also spoke about Student Aid.

Miss Rogers, the honorary member of the
hostess class, spoke a few delightful words,
after she was told by Miss Payne that she
would be expected to speak since her in-
troduction was the best one she had.

Margaret Banister, in the absence of Nan
Powell Hodges, '10, president of the Asso-
ciation, welcomed the Seniors into the As-
sociation with the induction ceremony.

Dorothy Smith, president of the class of
1932, assured the Alumnae of the respon-
sibility felt by her class and of their en-
deavor to be loyal to the standards set for
them.

The new officers of the Association were
then announced, and Edna Lee Wood, '26,
expressed her appreciation of the honor
given her. Everyone seemed immensely
satisfied with the results of the election.

The banquet closed with the singing of
the Sweet Briar Song, and the affair ended
in hilarity and in complete satisfaction of
the plais of the hostess class.

Alumnae News

Sweet Briar College History, 1900-1906

By Gay Patteson

(Editor's Note — Miss Gay Patteson, a member of the faculty from 1906-1919 and associated
with the college library staff since retiring from, teaching, was regarded one of the most suitable
persons to write of the early history of Sweet Briar College. From her own memory and from in-
formation gleaned from friends and papers of the Fletcher family she has given us an accurate
account of the six years prior to the opening of the college in 1906.)

THE beginning of the history of Sweet
Briar College is found in the history
of the Fletcher family. Many pa-
pers have been written covering the emi-
gration of Robert Fletcher from England,
his settling in Massachusetts, the removal
of some of his descendants to Vermont,
the struggle in those bleak regions for ex-
istence, and along with the struggle for ex-
istence the noble struggle for education
which fits man to serve his generation.
The records that we have of Elijah Flet-
cher are numerous; they tell of his boy-
hood and youth in Vermont and of his
education, of his coming to Virginia, his
marriage, his family and the education and
care he gave his children, and of his build-
ing up of land bought by piecemeal into
Sweet Briar plantation — a noble estate to
bequeath to his heirs. To those heirs also,
according to the story of Miss Mary Mel-
ton, an old friend of the family, he trans-
mitted a faith in the value of education
and a desire to aid in its extension by some
day founding a school at Sweet Briar.
Miss Melton wrote me that this idea was
a subject of discussion in the family before
the Civil War. When in 1884 "Miss Indy"
lost her only child, the dominant intellect-
ual interest of the Fletcher family asserted
itself and she and her husband. Reverend
John Henry Williams, turned their thoughts
definitely to planning for a school on Sweet
Briar plantation. In her will providing for
"Sweet Briar Institute" Mrs. Williams
says: "This bequest, devise and founda-
tion are made in fulfillment of my own
desire and of the especial request of my
late husband, John Henry Williams, sol-
emnly conveyed to me by his last will and
testament, for the establishment of a per-
petual memorial of our deceased daughter,
Daisy Williams."

The second chapter of the history of
Sweet Briar College begins with the death

of Mrs. Williams in 1900 and extends to
the opening of the college in the fall of
1906. The facts recorded are taken almost
entirely from the records of the Board of
Directors, but are supplemented by infor-
mation given by Dr. John McBryde, Jr.

By Mrs. Williams' will trustees were ap-
pointed to take the first steps towards giv-
ing form and substance to the institution
for which she had been planning for years.
The procedure she outlined was for the
trustees "to incorporate in the state of Vir-
ginia a corporation to be called Sweet
Briar Institute, either under the general
laws relating to the formation of corpora-
tions or by a special charter to be obtained
from the legislature of Virginia." The
will further called for a Board of Seven
Directors whom the trustees were to name
and appoint. Upon the formation and or-
ganization of the corporation the trustees
were to convey to it the real estate and
property described in the will. Where-
upon the corporation was to establish with
suitable dispatch a school or seminary to
be known as Sweet Briar Institute. The
general object and scope of the school was
"to impart to its students such education
in sound learning and such physical,
moral, and religious training as shall best
fit them to be useful members of society."
Mrs. Williams directed that the personal
property given by her be kept as an en-
dowment fund, but the corporation was
given authority to expend a part of the
principal in erecting and equipping build-
ings and in making improvements upon
the plantation. She desired the school to
be made self supporting, though she left
it to the discretion of the trustees to estab-
lish a limited number of scholarships for
deserving students. The trustees appointed
bv the will were the Right Reverend A. M.
Randolph, D. D.. LL. D.. of Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, Reverend J. M. Carson, of Lynch-

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burg, Virginia, Reverend Arthur P. Gray
of Amherst, Virginia, and Mr. Stephen R.
Harding of Amherst, Virginia.

The first Board of Directors consisted
of the four trustees with the addition of
the Reverend Carl E. Crammer, LL. D., of
Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. J. M. McBryde, Ph.
D., LL. D., of Blacksburg, Virginia, and
Judge Legh R. Watts, of Portsmouth, Vir-
ginia. The trustees at their first meeting,
unanimously accepted the trust imposed
by the will. At their second meeting in
March, 1901, "after due and careful con-
sideration and in accordance with the thir-
teenth clause of the will of the late Indiana
Fletcher Williams," they appointed the
first board of directors.

The problems facing the directors were
numerous and perplexing. They were left
an estate valued at something under a mil-
lion of dollars, $599,742.40, nearly half
of which was landed property. With this
property they were to establish an institu-
tion at a remote spot in the country, for
Sweet Briar plantation is about three miles
from the small town of Amherst and twelve
from Lynchburg. The country roads were
well nigh impassable after heavy rains, in
fact, a visitor to the college exclaimed after
his first experience, "You call these roads,
I call them obstacles to progress!" Yet
hauling had to be done over them. The
Southern railway passed less than a mile
from Sweet Briar House, but there was no
station available except at Amherst or
Coolwell and the trains stopped only at
those points. The plantation where build-
ings now stand was covered with woods
in 1900. There were on the grounds then
only Sweet Briar House, Mr. Williams'
office and some old cabins in which slaves
had once lived. The only one of these
cabins now standing is the office of the
Alumnae Association. The material diffi-
culties of filling ravines and levelling hills,
of making roads and erecting buildings
and of caring for workmen were serious,
but before attacking these the trustees had
first to secure from the legislature of Vir-
ginia a charter for Sweet Briar Institute.
This act was turned over to their legal
advisers, Messrs. Blackford, Horsley. and
Blackford. Strong opposition to granting
the charter developed in the legislature on
the score that Mrs. Williams was a tax-
dodger, that she had improperly withheld

property from taxation both by county
and the state. Compromises were consid-
ered wiser than litigation; so $30,000.00
was paid to county and state to satisfy
their claims. Another compromise was
effected at about the same time with the
heirs of Lucien Fletcher and others who
were disputing the validity of Mrs. Wil-
liams' will. This compromise was made
as in the other case to avoid prolonged
and expensive litigation. A payment of
$25,000.00 to Lucien Fletcher's heirs re-
moved the last obstacle to the granting of
the charter. In February. 1901. Messrs.
Blackford. Horsley and Blackford inform-
ed the trustees that the charter was granted,
giving them ample powers to carry out
Mrs. Williams' wishes and aims as set forth
in her will.

With the question of the charter settled,
and a few other preliminaries disposed of,
the thoughts of the directors turned to the
determination of the nature of the Sweet
Briar Institute to be founded, as we see in
the report of the first meeting of the Board
of Directors in April, 1901.

In this meeting, after prayer. Bishop
Randolph was elected President of the
Board of Directors and the Reverend
Arthur P. Gray, Secretary. The President
appointed Judge Watts and Dr. McBryde
a committee to receive from Mr. Harding,
Mrs. Williams' executor, the funds of the
estate and to deposit them in a suitable
safe deposit. He also appointed a second
committee consisting of Mr. Carson and
Dr. McBryde to select a suitable corporate
seal, and a third committee of Bishop Ran-
dolph. Dr. Crammer and Dr. McBryde to
formulate a plan for the organization and
work of Sweet Briar Institute. Dr. Mc-
Bryde had evidently been prepared for the
occasion for he presented suggestions for
the future plan and scope of the Institute
in a paper which was by common consent
accepted as the embodiment of the general
principles upon which the Board proposed
to organize the Institute. The paper or-
dered to be spread upon the minutes is as
follows:

"Untrammelled by state or denomina
tional control or by the testamentary direc-
tions of a will and thus relieved of the
necessity of bidding for popular favor
through the employment of adventitious
or temporary expedients it is the declared

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wish and purpose of its Board of Directors
to give such shape and scope to the Sweet
Briar Institute as will make it a worthy
monument to the liberality of its founder
and the first among the establishments for
female education in the State and the
South. Believing it would be unwise for
the new institution to enter upon fields of
educational activity already fully occupied
or to come into unnecessary competition
with existing seminaries of learning it is
our desire to have it take possession of a
territory hitherto overlooked and neglected.
In the North the demand for collegiate
instruction for women, fully equal in char-
acter and grade to that offered the men bv
such institutions as Harvard, Princeton,
Columbia and \ ale has resulted in the
foundation of Vassar, Welleslev, Smith
and Bryn jVIawr. In the West and the
South, a demand for the better equipment
of women for the practical vocations of
life has led to the establishment of some
excellent normal and industrial schools
exclusively for girls. But nowhere, to our
knowledge has the attempt been made har-
moniously to combine in one institution
the best features of these two classes of
schools. Holding that such combination
is neidier impossible nor impracticable but
rather that industrial training can be made,
if only a safe equilibrium be provided for,
to supplement, strengthen and enrich the
intellectual, it is our resolve that the Sweet
Briar Institute shall attempt this new line
of educational effort. Standing for a
policy and work distinctly and peculiarly
its own it will offer to the voung women
of the South carefully formulated courses
of study leading to degrees of high grade
and proper adaptation to the needs and
conditions of the female mind — some lit-
erary and some scientific — and along with
them, thoroughly practical training in cer-
tain artistic and industrial branches of
knowledge — the two lines of work so ar-
ranged and co-ordinated that the choice of
any one of the four year courses will carry
with it the election of a .qriven number of
the practical branches. These courses of
necessity, few in number at first, will be
added to as the growth and development
of the institution may call for them and
experience dictate their character and
*cope. The specification and formulation
of these courses must await the future ac-

tion of the Board when it can have the
assistance and advice of the president and
faculty to be elected later on."

Thus we see that as early as April, 1901,
the Board of Directors had come to the
decision that Sweet Briar Institute should
be undenominational and should offer
■'degrees of a high grade." With two such
momentous questions determined, they now
turned their attention to the very practical
business of housing Sweet Briar Institute.
I have already mentioned some of the ma-
terial difficulties to be overcome in this
work, difficulties the directors fully real-
ized. To meet them promptly and ef-
fectively they appointed an executive com-
mittee consisting of Dr. McBryde, Mr. Car-
son, and Judge Watts.

A few weeks later Dr. McBryde was
offered the post of President of Sweet
Briar Institute. Pending his decision he
was urgently requested to accept as Chair-
man of the Executive Committee the posi-
tion of superintendent of the plans, the
material, and the equipment of the Insti-
tute and to be the authoritative manager of
all the property in the hands of the trus-
tees. This post he accepted. Dr. Mc-
Bryde, a reader of the New York Church-
man, had been struck by articles in it on
church architecture, written by Ralph
Adams Cram. Prepossessed in Mr. Cram's
favor, as soon as he was elected Chairman
of the Executive Committee, he opened a
correspondence with him, invited him to
be his guest at Blacksburg and after talk-
ing over plans with him. took him to Sweet
Briar to study the situation. Mr. Cram
gave it as his opinion that the buildings
should be of colonial type, either yellow
or red brick. Dr. McBryde urged that
every effort be made to avoid the use of
briffht red bricks which would make the
buildings appear as red splotches on the
landscape. Accordingly, he had a brick
yard set up on the place and after the
bricks had been burned had a row laid for
Mr. Cram's inspection. They were not of
the smooth-finished type but were rather
rough with cracks in them, but Mr. Cram
agreed they were just the thing and decided
to use them. When the plans for the gen-
eral arrangement of the campus with
sketches of the Academic Building, the
Refectory, and two dormitories arrived,
they were submitted to the Board, admired

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and Dr. McBryde was instructed to con-
tinue his negotiations with Messrs. Cram,
Goodhue and Ferguson, and to ascertain
the approximate cost of the construction
of the buihlings. Mr. Cram's plans have
been in the main carried out during the
past twenty-five years.

The water problem was a serious one
for the Chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee, but was finally solved. Dr. Mc-
Bryde also saw to the construction of a
dam across a little stream running through
the place, thus forming a lake, one of the
beauty spots of Sweet Briar. He also
directed his attention to improving the
grounds and laying out walks and roads
so that when the school should open
"there should be nothing of the new and
raw to offend the senses, but every spot,
every object should make its aesthetic ap-
peal." This was done in the firm belief
"that attractive surroundings and artistic
buildings have a profound and lasting in-
fluence on the hearts and minds of young
girls just emerging into womanhood."

About this time the college seal was
designed by the son of the Chairman Dr.
McBryde. Dr. McBryde says in his report
to the trustees: "As the name of the State
comes from the Virgin Queen I have con-
cluded that a suitable seal for the school
should show, by quartering, the arms or
some emblem of the State, of the county,
and of the family endowing the school.
A Tudor Rose in the first and fourth quar-
ters would indicate not only the State but
the school — the eglantine or sweet briar
belonging to the rose family. The county
would be indicated by the arms of Lord
Amherst from whom the county takes its
name. The family arms (Fletcher) would
occupy tlie second quarter, the Amherst
arms the third.

As indicative of the aim and policy of
the school I think the following line from
Wordsworth appropriate for our motto or
legerd, "A perfect woman, nobly planned."
He also submitted for consideration other
mottoes. The one adopted by tlie college
was the motto "Rosam quae meruit ferat."

The appointment of Eppa Hunton, Jr.,
and of N. C. Manson, Jr., as commissioners
was a very important step forward in the
Sweet Briar history in as much as it
brought to the aid of Sweet Briar an able
and loval friend, Mr. N. C. Manson. whose

efforts for the welfare of the college ended
only with his life.

In December, 1902, the death of Mr.
Carson left a vacancy both in the Board
of Directors and in the Executive Com-
mittee. This vacancy was filled at the
meeting of the Board in July, 1903, by the
unanimous election of Mr. Manson to both
offices.

At this same July meeting the Executive
Committee was authorized to contract for
buildings and improvements, provided the
sum total did not exceed §116,810.00.
This amount was to cover the construction
of the Academic Building, the Refectory,
two dormitories.

In 1904. Sweet Briar Mansion was made
the Administration Building; the two draw-
ing rooms were set aside to be kept as they
were as a memorial to the Williams' family.
The bed rooms were reserved for the use of
members of the Board and invited guests
and the remaining rooms for library and
office. It was also decided to remodel St.
Angelo as the Executive Mansion. The
Chairman of the Executive Committee re-
ported this time that the difficulties of
transportation and the lack of foresight
on the part of the contractor and the inter-
ference caused by strikes had greatly in-
terfered with work on the buildings; still
two dormitories were near completion, the
refectory was ready for the roof, and the
brick work of the Academic Building was
approaching the second floor. He also re-
ported that the site of the siding was at
last determined and that three local trains
northward bound and two southward bound
now stopped at that point — a very great
convenience. The report ranged over all
of the requirements that could enter into
a well-kept farm, a luxurious hotel, and a
properly equipped college. The Chairman
also showed a thoroush comprehension of
the girls' minds: "The girls must have
some place at which convenientlv to spend
their pocket money. The grounds around
must be laid out tastefully and be well-
kept. Wlien the lake is finished a neat
little boat house should be built and boats
provided."

The St. Louis Exposition offered an op-
portunity for the announcement of Sweet
Briar Institute to a large public. Dr. Mc-
Bryde seized the opportunity, engaged floor
space, and sent on the drawings of the

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architects and photographs of the grounds.
In August, 1904, a special committee was
appointed consisting of Bishop Randolph,
Dr. Grammer and Dr. McBryde, to consider
the whole matter of the policy and cur-
riculum of Sweet Briar Institute. The re-
port of this committee in April, 1905, was
adopted. It was as follows:

1. The requirements of admission are
to be those in force in the North East
Association of Colleges and Preparatory
Schools and in the Middle States Associa-
tion of Colleges and Preparatory Schools.

2. The various courses of study lead-
ing to degrees shall be offered to students
along different lines of study, to be pro-
vided and multiplied in accordance with
the growing demands of the Institution.
At the opening it will be best in the judg-
ment of the committee to offer courses in
literature, classical or general, in science,
and of a more or less predominantly ar-
tistic character. In the formulation of
such courses the committee recoimnends
that certain essentials of liberal culture be
prescribed in each course.

3. The standard for graduation will be
of the elevated character indicated by the
requirements for admission and on the
same plan with the standards of other col-
leges requiring the same conditions of en-
trance.

4. For the present the only degrees
bestowed shall be the recognized degrees
B.A. or B.S., for general culture either
literary or scientific.

5. In view of the prevailing educational
conditions and of the necessity for a longer
period of publication to make the condi-
tions of entrance generally known the com-
mittee advises special temporary arrange-
ments by the formation of a sub-freshman
class for students who can within a year
meet the requirements for matriculation as
set forth in the first section of the report.

6. Provision shall also be made for
special students who do not propose to
matriculate or take degrees but who give
promise of making a good use of the ad-
vantages of the Institution. The admission
of such students shall be carefully guarded.

The charge for each student for board,
room, tuition, heat, light, laundry, infirm-
ary fee, and matriculation was set at five
himdred dollars.

Having inspected the work and buildings
at Sweet Briar the Board resolved that it
would be inexpedient to open the school
before the fall of 1906. The necessity for
this delay in the opening of the college is
made clear in the report of the Executive
Committee on April 29, 1905, which enum-
erates as follows the things that must be
done before students can be received at
Sweet Briar.

The dormitories must be plumbed,
heated, lighted, and furnished. The Aca-
demic Building also must be plumbed,
heated, and lighted, and its twelve lecture
rooms equipped with the necessary plat-
forms, desks, seats, and blackboards, etc.

The Refectory, in addition to heat, light,
and water must be supplied with machin-
ery, ranges, elevators, steam boilers, crock-
ery, cutlery, linen, tables, chairs, etc.

The Apartment House, four professors'
houses and the president's house must be
completed. Each will need its separate
heating plant and lines of wires; water
pipes must be carried to them. Ihe pa-
vilion and terrace walks and steps are still
to be finished and a large amount of grad-
ing around the four buildings must be com-
pleted to add to their attractiveness.

The laundry must be supplied with the
necessary machinery; so must the cold
storage plant.

Sweet Briar House must be repaired, a
part of it fitted up as offices and a part as
an infirmary. For the latter the best mod-
ern hospital furniture must be secured.

A fire-proof vault must be put in. The
road must be macadamized. An avenue
must be made in front of the professors'
houses and connected by a good driveway
with the main buildings.

Dr. McBryde's health began to fail in
1905 and he was forced to go to Jamaica
for a rest. In his absence Mr. Manson
became Chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee. Then early in 1906 the Board of
Directors learned that Dr. McBryde had
yielded to the pressure brought to bear on
him and had decided to remain at Blacks-
burg. This necessitated a search for a new
president — a search which terminated hap-
pily in the appointment on May 22, 1906,
of Dr. Mary K. Benedict, as the first presi-
dent of Sweet Briar College.

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An Economist's View of the Present Depression

By Ernest L. Bogart
President of the Americ an Economic Association

(Reprinted from ■'Forerunners of the Present Depression," by Ernest L. Bcgart, with the per-
mission of the University of Chicago Press. Originally presented October 17. 1931. over a nation-
wide network of the National Broadcasting Company in a series of lectures on ""Aspects of the
Depression,"' sponsored by the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education. I

(Editor's Note — Ernest L. Bogart, president of the American Economic Association, an au-
thority on economic history and international finance, is professor of economics and head of the
department at the University of Illinois, where he has been for the last 23 years. A native of New
York State, he is an alumnus of Princeton and of the University of Halle, and. in addition to his
teaching at the University of Illinois, has been on the faculties of Princeton, Oherlin. and Indiana.!

THE other day an acquaintance
stopped me on the street and asked
if I thought that we would never
recover from the present depression but
would have to adjust ourselves permanent-
ly to conditions of lowered production and
of chronic unemployment. A banker said
to me recently that the present crisis is the
worst in our history and prophesied that
it would probablv take thirtv vears to re-
store prosperity. It may be, as our richest
citizen has asserted that "history is bunk,"
but a slight knowledge of our own eco-
nomic development would have saved these
gentlemen from much foolish talk. In-
deed, one can derive a great deal of com-
fort from a study of the past, for the
United States in the last hundred years
has experienced some fifteen well-marked
crises, from each of which the country has
emerged, after a period of depression vary-
ing from a few months to five vears. strong-
er and more prosperous than ever. \^ bile
historv never absolutely repeats itself, even
a brief survey of some of the more impor-
tant crises of the past will throw needed
light upon our present plight. For this
purpose I shall select those of 1837, 1873,
and 1893, since these were the most serious
and were followed by the longest depres-
sions.

Within the last 20 years the term "busi-
ness cycle ' has come into general use to
describe these recurrent circles of good
times, speculation, and depression, and it
is to this cycle that I wish to direct your
attention. In every case we have gone
ahead too fast in the investment of capital
i-i fixed forms, far in advance of the im-
mediate needs of the country, and then
have beei compelled to pause and catch
our breath.

The crisis of 1837 was preceded bv the
construction on a large scale of internal
improvements in the form of turnpikes,
steamboats, canals, and banks, which were
designed to connect the vast region between
the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlan-
tic seaboard, to open up new markets both
for the western farmer and for the eastern
manufacturer, and to provide credit facili-
ties for larger domestic trade. Difficult as
it is for us to realize today, the opening of
the Erie Canal was more immediately revo-
lutionary than were the later railroad or
automobile developments. Its effect on
domestic commerce w"as phenomenal.
Freight rates between New \ ork and Buf-
falo were cut to one-tenth the former figure
and the time for the trip was shortened
from twenty to eight days.

A stream of settlers and freight began to
move into the Ohio \ alley, and a return
movement of western produce flowed to the
Atlantic coast cities. The South, too, pros-
pered: she bought food and other supplies
from the western farmers, and manufac-
tures from eastern merchants, to whom she
sold her expanding cotton production. All
sections of the country shared in the new
prosperity which was introduced by" the
revolutionary changes in transportation.
It seemed as if the key to unbounded wealth
had been found.

The response of the people was imme-
diate and unmistakable. With one accord
they" gave themselves to speculation. It
was a period of lapid change, of great
economic development, and of unbounded
optimism. A network of canals. 4.500
miles in all. was built — far more than the
traffic could support. Steamboats multi-
plied in number on the Mississippi Riyer
and the Great Lakes, and throughout the

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West and South hundreds of private and
state banks were chartered to provide the
credit facilities for the expected expansion.
\\ ithin a decade perliaps half a billion dol-
lars had been invested in internal improve-
ments, much of which was borrowed from
Europe. The inflation of the currency
caused higher prices, and the "new era"
of good times ivas hailed as permanent.

In 1837 this period of expansion and
speculation came to an end. The prema-
ture investments could not earn their in-
terest charges. Depression in England cur-
tailed the foreign demand for cotton, and
in March several of the greatest cotton
factories in New Orleans failed. Cotton
fell from twenty cents a pound to ten. In
New York 130 firms had failed by the
middle of April. In May every bank in
the United States suspended specie pay-
ments. Over six hundred banks failed, the
discredited bank notes depreciated in value,
and prices shrank to a hard-money level.
\^lien foreign investors asked for the re-
payment of their loans, some of the states
repudiated their bonds and others delayed
their interest pavments. Several of the
western states declared a moratorium on
private debts. The government revenues
fell off and Congress, called in extra ses-
sion, voted SIO.000.000 in Treasury notes
to meet the ernergencv.

The crisis of 1837 was followed by a
prolonged depression. Factories and work-
shops, organized on a boom basis, closed
when the demand fell off. Thousands of
operatives were discharged, and the cities
were filled with the unemployed. Poor-
houses evervwhere were crowded. Several
commission houses were broken into bv the
unemployed, and the food riots were ended
only by the promise of the merchants to
give flour to the poor. It was estimated
that nine-tenths of all the eastern factories
were closed, while the reduction in the
number of clerks in mercantile establish-
ments and banks still further swelled the
group of the unemployed.

This crisis of 1837 was one of the most
severe and far-reaching in our history, and
tiie depression did not come to an end until
1E42. By that time, however, the effects of
the earlier excesses had been overcome,
weak institutions had been weeded out. and
the necessary readjustments to new condi-
tions of transportation and trade effected.

L pon the firm foundation thus laid the
natural buovancv of the people soon built
up a more enduring structure of prosperity
than any the country had yet seen. So
great was the economic development that
the fifteen-year period after 1842 has usu-
ally been referred to as the "golden age"
of our history.

The crisis of 1837 was the result of a too
rapid and too uneven expansion. This time
there was an over-investment in farms and
railroads. The Homestead Act, which gave
to each settler a free farm of 160 acres,
proved an irresistible attraction and dre\f
thousands of farmers onto the western
plains. These pioneers, anxious to im-
prove their new farms, borrowed from
eastern capitalists, mortgaging their lands
to them. But many of them borrowed for
equipment and improvement more than
their farms could earn, and they frequently
defaulted on interest and principal. For
years "a Kansas mortgage" was a s)Tionym
for an unprofitable investment.

Even larger amounts of capital were in-
vested in railroads, which were often built
in advance of traffic and beyond the frontier
of settlement. Between 1865 and 1873 the
railway mileage was doubled. It is difficult
today to understand how the builders could
have hoped that these railways w-ould de-
velop traffic or earn expenses.

In the cities, factories, docks, and build-
ings were being constructed on an unpre-
cedented scale. There was in all these w^ays
an enormous absorption of circulating cap-
ital in fixed forms, many of which were not
immediately remunerative. The equipment
for future production along certain lines
was increasing at a more rapid rate than
the demand. It has been estimated that in
the eight years preceding 1873 the capital
invested in the tnited States was equal to
the cost of the Civil War.

Xot only was much of this expansion un-
wise and premature, but it was unfortunate-
ly attended bv fraudulent practices. These
were the days of Erie and Credit Mobilier,
of the "salary grab" law by Congress, of
whiskey frauds, of the infamous Tweed
ring, and of other scandals. It was a
period of unbridled individualism and of
great opportunity, in which speculative ex-
cesses were restrained neither by an in-
formed public opinion nor by a high busi-
ness morality. \^ aste and extravagance,

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stimulated by an inflated currency, were
seen on every hand. Conservatism in busi-
ness and economy in private expenditure
were disregarded in favor of so-called pro-
gressive methods. It was at this time that
the phrase "frenzied finance" was added to
the American vocabulary.

In September, 1873, the bubble of specu-
lative enterprise and inflated credit burst,
and a severe crisis occurred. The imme-
diate occasion of the crash was the failure
of the banking house of Jay Cooke and
Companv, which was heavilv involved in
the financmg of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road, but an end must soon have come to
the speculative expansion in any case. The
news of the failure precipitated a panic in
Wall Street. Securities were dumped on
the market in large amounts and sold for
what they would bring. Prices fell disas-
trously and many brokerage houses and
banks failed. The Stock Exchange closed
for ten days. A run on the banks started
and the eastern banks suspended specie
pa)Tnents for forty days. Commoditii'
prices fell, but buying power fell faster.
In the single year 187.3 over five thousand
failures occurred \\-ith liabilities of S250.-
000,000. Factories, furnaces, and mills
shut doiNTi, railroad building stopped, busi-
ness houses were closed, and three million
men were thrown out of work. A depres-
sion ensued which lasted for half a decade.

The ine\-itable period of liquidation and
readjustment was severe and protracted.
By the end of 1875 railroads had defaulted
on S750.000.000 worth of bonds. A cut of
10 per cent in railway wages in 1877 was
followed bv strikes, riotous outbreaks, and
the destruction of property. It was esti-
mated in October of that year that in the
previous twenty months there had been a
shrmkage of 25 per cent in the capital
employed in mercantile business.

By 1878. however, the depression had
run its course, the necessarv liquidation
had been completed, and the country had
entered upon a new period of prosperity'.
The great investment in railroads and other
property improvements, premature thoueh
they were, had furnished the country -with
excellent transportation facilities and in-
dustrial plants, and these now contributed
to the production of new wealth. After
1879 the standard of living w'as raised,
without straining the resources of the coun-

try, to levels which would have been re-
garded as extravagant and wasteful in 1873.

In describing the crisis of 1893 it is
scarcely necessary to recoimt the now fa-
miliar cycle of good times, overexpansion,
panic, and depression. I may, however,
mention one or two factors not hitherto
emphasized. The first of these was the
great overproduction of farm products,
especially of wheat, and the consequent
fall in prices. The rapid settlement of
the public domain and tlie mtroduction of
improved farm machinery resulted in the
production of crops beyond the capacity
of the domestic market to absorb, and
whose export glutted the world-markets.
Corn was so cheap that it was burned for
fuel in many places, and wheat was left
unharvested or fed to the stock. The agri-
cultural overproduction and consequent
depression adversely aff^ected the railroads,
banks, manufactures, and business in gen-
eral.

A second feature making for maladjust-
ment was the rapid exploitation of our
mineral resources and the development of
our great iron and steel industries. It was
during this period that Jay Gould discov-
ered that pig-iron production was the ba-
rometer of trade, but the fluctuations of
the barometer unhappily introduced new^
elements of industrial instability".

Still a third factor was the currency dis-
turbances, brought about by the eff^orts of
Congress to force unneeded amounts of
silver upon the country, and resulting in
inflation, export of gold, and distrust.

The development before 1893 had been
uneven and extreme, and the panic of that
vear had long been brewing. It was at-
tended bv banking and commercial fail-
ures, railroad bankruptcies, falling prices,
reduced earnings, wage cuts, unemploy-
ment, strikes, distress, and unrest. A de-
pression followed which continued until
1896. after which a revival of prosperity
occurred which carried the nation to the
highest standards of living yet enjoyed.

What shall we say of the crisis of 1929
and the subsequent depression? We are
now in the trough and experiencing the
pains of liquidation and readjustment but
no one familiar with past panics can doubt
that the cycle will again run its course and
that we shall once more enjoy a greater
prosperity. Tliis is the lesson of history.

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" The Flapper, 1796 "

Dr. Doil\ N'eill Raymond

(Editor's Note — Mr=. Raymond is Professor of Histor>- at Sweet Briar College. She has writ-
ten the folloiN"ing books: British Policy and Opinion During the Franco-Prussian War; The Political
Career of Lord Byron. Olivers Secretary, John Milton, in an Era oj Revolt is to be published in
October. I

WHO would expect to find a flapper
hidden in the sub basement of the
\^idener'? At least, who would
expect to find the creature in that Library
late in August when Harvard is not in
session and even those errant and some-
what battered knights attendant on the
Summer School have taken tlieir depart-
ure? I had descended into this dusty
deep to search out a Fraser's Magazine of
some seventh-five years ago that had in it
letters purporting to have been tsTitten by
Mihon to Louis XI\ , Moliere and \ oiture,
— letters which in their day had befooled
the august permanent secretary of the
French Academy- of Science. Leaning
confidingly against the hoary Fraser's,
dust\- but still brave in gold and brown
and blue. I spied "The Flapper."

Truth to tell, she proved more ancient
than her escort, — had passed the century
mark and thirty years besides. The child
of an Irish baron, a gentle father, goutv
and philosophic, successor to the traditions
of stately Addison and blithe Dick Steele,
this first news essay of Dublin had flour-
ished for a year and a day. Then, piquant
and impudent, it had preferred to flit away
to nothingness rather than take on the
sober tone deemed appropriate in 1796
when Ireland was threatened with invasion.

As motto it bore a quotation from Gul-
liver's Voyage to Laputa, "They forgot
several times what thev were about, till
their memories were again roused by their
Flappers," a statement time has not yet
succeeded in outmoding. For flappers,
whether for the purpose of invidious com-
parison or simply to occasion regret, are
still the perpetual reminders of youth to
age. In the flying island called Laputa.
Captain Lemuel Gulliver had found that
many persons were in the habit of going
about their work attended by "flappers."
whose sole dutv it was to wagele bladders.

mounted on short sticks, blown full and
holding dancing pebbles and dried peas.
By the noisy flips and flops of the blad-
ders, the philosophers of that island were
shocked into a realization of their corporal
existence. He who was about to speak was
gently smitten on the mouth that his utter-
ance might be sharp and to the point and
not maunder oS' into the rubbish of specu-
lation. He who was about to be addressed
received a soft flap on the ears that he
might the more wakefullv attend to what
was said. When the philosopher walked,
his flapper skipped at his side, ever ready
to prevent an absent-minded collision or
some rapt descent into an abyss.

But the office of the flappers of Laputa
was delegated always to the youths of the
male gender. And the Irish flapper of
1796 claims that in antiquity, too, this was
more often the case. Darius had for a
flapper a young man that kept him ap-
praised of his inglorious condition by cry-
ing each day before the banquetting board,
"Remember the Athenians and Eritreans."
Philip of Macedon kept such a one con-
stantly to remind him of his mortality.

\ et the feminine variety serves just as
well. The great ones of the earth are made
conscious every day that they are but as
other men. Perhaps it came about that
the feminine flapper grew to be a creature
too rare and extravagant to be maintained
by the generalitv" of mortals, for the first
of the species most certainly was not mas-
culine. She was a goddess.

"A Flapper." says the quaint old news
letter from Dublin, "must have been an
officer of much importance, being some-
thing in the nature of an Ambassador be-
tueen the speaker and the House, and a
tutelarv deitv or guardian angel to each
individual. Homer has assigned no less
illustrious a personage as flapper to his

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principal heroes than the Goddess of Wis-
dom herself."

Angels and Ministers of Grace, how
times have changed! And yet I seem to
remember the plaintive reproof of a Sweet
Briar Senior.

"If they'd only wake up and understand
us, I'm sure they'd see that we serve as
messengers from the future to the past."

But whether wisely or unwisely, the
Dublin Flapper of 1796 is certainly not
in agreement with Miss 1932. He laments
the passing of small waists and begs that
whale-boned bodices be resumed. He is
alarmed at the extreme decolletage to be
observed — lingeringly observed, at the routs
in Dublin. He publishes a mock adver-
tisement of a shipment of dresses imported
from the South Sea Island of Otaheite,
which he avers will afford greater protec-
tion than the frocks of the mode then cur-
rent. He has been very much moved at
the sad plight of those who had not the
cloth to cover themselves withal and has
with difficulty refrained from sheltering
fair bosoms with his handkerchief "or
even spreading his expanded hands over
such as from their youth must be more
sensible to the impression of the air."

He is perturbed also at that lack of
maiden bashfulness made manifest by the
sight of young ladies clad in coachmen's
surtouts and speeding about in curricles
and phaetons, aggrieved by their abundant
use of rouge, by their oaths and their easy
familiarity with the opposite sex. At Mrs.
Mouldy's rout, he had heard a young miss
excuse herself from dancing on the plea
that she was fatigued to death from driv-
ing her restive ponies all that morning.
"She swore a tremendous oath she would
discharge her groom as he was the most
drunken dog in the universe." The dances
that were called were "Drops of Brandy,"
"Moll in the Wad," "Jenny bang'd the
Weaver," "Go to the Devil and Shake
Yourself," — very shocking he thought them.
From the "Familiar buckish salutation
with which the ladies recognize their male
acquaintances" to their manner of partina;,
he finds little in their behavior that is
commendable. Social life seems to him a
blasphemous masquerade "in which some
young bucks have assumed female dress
and are amusing themselves with the whim
of retainins; their own manners." One

marvels that so much could have been ac-
complished, before the introduction of the
boyish bob! The dolorous Dublin flapper
retires to his books for consolation and is
further alarmed by learning from Juvenal
that "in the last stages of the Roman Gov-
ernment when every public and private
principle had degenerated, women of fash-
ion were complete bucks." Evidently the
country was on its way to ruin.

Nor can the flapper of 1796 think society
will be preserved by the more mature wo-
men of Ireland. Too often age has only
made them slatterns, tiresome blue stock-
ings, devotees of the card table, scandal
mongers or unlovely intrigants. One of
these last proposes to him the promotion,
through his news sheet, of the "Loyal Yeo-
m_en Charioteers for the Defence of Ire-
land." They are to be armed with bows
and arrows and, for greater havoc, they
are to affix sharp scythes to the axle-trees
of their curricles. Most deadly of all are
to be their uniforms. The aspiring Ama-
zon who broaches the subject to the flapper
urges that he come up the back stairs,
walking softly past her husband's door,
and judge the effect for himself in her
dressing room.

Years alone cannot be trusted to bring
discretion and maturity, declares the sage
of Dublin. How many strange results
would take place should a new measure of
time be established by which the existence
of each woman should be declared com-
mensurate in length with the train of ideas
that had passed in her mind. "Little Miss
of Ninety-Five." thinks the flapper, "would
perhaps be sent to the nursery by her staid
neice of thirteen for scolding at cards and
Manama might be obliged to solicit her
daughter to chaperone her at the drawing
room."

"Well, my dear," says Bright Cheeks of
1932 to her chum, "Guess who was out at
the Blue Horse last night! My Mother!
She came in with that good looking friend
of Dad's from Denver. I watched them
dance around once or twice, sort of moony,
and then I just sailed in and took her
home. She looked so shy and fragile in
that jam and din. I said, 'Don't you think
we'd all better be running along now.
Dearest? Jimmie wants to take us all back

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SWEET BKIAK MAY COIKT, lit:j

Sweet Briar College

The French University and the American

Student

By Edith Railey, '32

(Editor's Note: Miss Raiiey's own success in lier Junior year in France in 1930-1931, and the
records of the four Sweet Bijar students, who have spent the cuiTent year in study there, must be
noted as offering contradictoiy evidence to the pessimism of the following article.)

French universities have always been
glad to welcome foreign students and there
are perhaps more students of various na-
tionalities enrolled in these universities
than in any other country in the world.
Even in the middle ages the University of
Paris boasted of being, not a French, but
a European university. Any student, of
any race is allowed to attend courses there.
And there are no requirements for entrance,
except the payment of the nominal fee of
two hundred and fifty francs. The French
are not only willing to admit foreigners to
their universities but they are very eager to
send their own students to other countries,
and they even demand that their profes-
sors of modern languages spend several
years abroad. The plan is one of exchange,
a plan based on experience and tradition
and in general it may be said to have
worked well. English students seem to
find little difficulty in passing a semester
at Nancy and a surprising number of
French students go each year to Manches-
ter or some other English university.

The case of the American student is very
different. Until only recently, most of the
Americans studying in Paris already had
a degree from an American college and
came to France to do research work of
a very specialized order. They were, there-
fore, not enrolled as regular students.
Now, however, with the organization of
the Smith and Delaware groups, each year
a larger number of undergraduate students
go to take their junior year abroad. Why
their junior year? Because the American
college student is supposed to have had
by his third year nearly as much prepara-
tion as the French student when he first
enters the university. Anyone who com-
pares the French and American systems of
education will see how profound the dif-
ferences are and will realize that the aver-

age American student is poorly prepared
for work in a French university.

In the first place, primary and secondary
education in France is not prolonged al-
most indefinitely as it is in the United
States. The French child usually begins
the study of Latin and of modern lan-
guages at the age of eleven, the American
child almost never does so before he is
fourteen. The French "college," which is
said to correspond to our grammar school,
is actually more like our high school. The
French child goes to school at eight in the
morning and rarely returns before five in
the afternoon. He learns not only a great
many facts of which American children of
the same age are totally ignorant, but he
learns how to study, how to organize his
work, and how to write a well "composed"
theme. And in the same way the Ivctie
or high school is a sort of combination of
our high school and college. We see from
this that the American student, in relation
to his work, is much older than the French
and cannot expect to do the same work as
a French student of his own age.

Any comparison between French and
American degree is almost impossible.
The French degrees, bachelier es lettres
and leciencie e lettres represent an abso-
lute value, since education in France is so
standardized that it may be said to be the
same in all the universities. All students
must pass the same examinations, whether
they come from Grenoble, Nancy, or the
University of Paris. The American de-
grees A. B. and A. M. only have a relative
meaning: a student mav be more or less
well prepared according to the college that
gives him his degree. And French degrees
are given on a purely competitive basis,
out of all the students who present them-
selves for the examinations, only a very
small r umber of the hiahest are chosen

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from each university. Fortunately there is
no limit to the number of times a person
may try and many students do not succeed
until their seventh or eighth attempt. But
at any rate by that time they must know
their subject thoroughly and are not re-
ceiving a diploma just as a certificate of
attendance for four years.

However, it is in the general spirit that
French education differs even more greatly
from ours. There is much talk in France
about general culture but the tendency of
French higher education is toward an even
narrower specialization than in our own
country. Perhaps this situation results
from the fact that the French student is
supposed to have, and does actually have,
much more "general culture" when he
reaches the university than the American
boy or girl. At the university he studies
one field only, at one Faculte. It is easy
to see that the American student who has
a smattering of modern languages, a little
history, less philosophy and some litera-
ture, cannot go into one of these Facultes.
He is little able to make a detailed study
and give a literary criticism of a text, he
is often unaccustomed to doing any indi-
vidual work that is not strictly supervised
and so is completely baffled by the work
required of French students.

In order to meet the needs of the ever
increasing number of foreign undergrad-
uates who want to study in France, the
University of Paris, and several other
French universities are offering special
courses. At the Sorbonne these courses
are grouped under the name of Cours de
Civilisation. Lectures on literature, art,
history, philosophy and economics are
given by professors of the University of

EDITH RAILEY, "32

Paris. It has been found impracticable
to offer courses in science. At the end of
the term diplomas are given to students
who pass written and oral examinations in
any four subjects, the passing mark being
ten out of a possible twenty.

This plan has proved very successful and
it is certainly die only one under which
American students can attend French uni-
versities with any profit as long as the two
systems of education remain what they are.
Even in the Cours de Civilisation, the
American student finds tire courses far
more difficult than any work he has done
in America, and often he painfuUv realizes
the inadequacy of the preparation received
in American schools.

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Alumnae News

The Alumnae Class, May Day Horse Show. Reading from left to
right: Natalie Roberts, '31, Jeanette Boone, '27, Peronne Whittaker, '31,
Jean Saunders, '30, Margaret Laidley, '26, Agnes Sproul, '30, Elizabeth
Stevenson, '30, and Helen Miller, '29.

The Sweet Briar Horse Show

The fifth annual Sweet Briar horse show
was held on the morning of May 6, at the
riding ring. Mrs. Fay H. Ingalls, and Mr.
Cecil Tuke, of the Homestead, Hot Springs,
Virginia, officiated as judges; Mr. Herman
Wells, of Lynchburg, was the ring mana-
ger.

Of more than passing interest to all
alumnae was Class VI, which was the class
for Alumnae. This class was judged en-
tirely on horsemanship and was won by

Peronne Whittaker, '31. This is the first
time that the alumnae have had a special
class and it was interesting that eight grad-
uates found it possible to enter under the
able chairmanship of Natalie Roberts, '31.
Agnes Sproul, '30, won second place,
Elizabeth Stevenson, '30, third place, and
Natalie Roberts, '31. fourth place. Miss
Lee Maher presented the winner of this
class with a beautiful riding crop.

Sweet Briar College

THE GLEE CLUB

Sweet Briar Glee Club Wins First Place

in Contest

The Sweet Briar Glee Club was awarded
first place in the choral club contest held
at the John Marshall Hotel Auditorium,
Friday morning, April 19, from a group
of eight women's college choral clubs
which entered the Virginia State Choral
festival at Richmond.

The contest pieces were Devotion, by
Richard Strauss, In These Delightful,
Pleasant Groves, by Henry Purcell, and
Pirate Dreams, by Charles Huerter. The
second piece was sung unaccompanied.

The contestants were judged on general
appearance, interpretation, tone, diction,
attack, release, and other musical quali-
fications.

Forty-three girls from the Sweet Briar
Glee Club, directed by Mr. Alfred A.
Finch, head of the music department, en-
tered the contest. Other clubs participat-
ing were: Westhampton, Averett, Mary
Baldwin (the contest winners in 1931),
Harrisonburg, Fredericksburg, Radford,
and Stuart Hall.

After the contest the winning glee clubs
were entertained at a luncheon. In the
afternoon all contestants were invited to
a garden party held at Westhampton.

While in Richmond the members of the
Glee Club were house guests of many of
the members of the Richmond Alumnae
Club.

Alumnae News

Campus News

On May 21 Sweet Briar College held the
tenth anniversary of Amherst County Day.
About 1,500 of the county school children,
teachers, and parents were on the campus
for a day of varied entertainment. This
neighborly day has become one of the most
important annual events in the college cal-
endar.

Among the applicants for entrance to
Sweet Briar in 1932 considered by the
Committee on Admissions are twenty who
are related to present or former Sweet
Briar students. They are seventeen sisters,
one cousin, one niece, and one Sweet Briar
granddaughter.

Applicants represent interesting prepa-
ration in foreign countries. One applicant
has attended Pensionnat Le Manoir, Cham-
blandes, Lausanne, Switzerland, for the
past four years; another has attended the
Shanghai-American School, Shanghai, Chi-
na, for four years.

One girl presents credits from the Lycee
Francais de Varsovie, Warsaw, Poland,
and from the American Mission School,
Teheran, Persia. Another has attended the
Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii: while
an Italian student, whose parents live in
Florence, Italy, is securing all of her pre-
paration in a school in the United States.

The Sweet Briar A'eM,\s has maintained
its first class honor rating among college
papers, according to the National Scholas-
tic Press Association system of rating. The
News won 775 out of a possible thousand
points. The rank accorded it corresponds
to a B grade, and is the same rank given
the paper last year, when it won 770
points.

College papers are graded on four
counts: news values and sources, news
writing and editing, editorials and enter-
taining matter, and headlines, typography,
and makeup.

The News was especially commended on
printing items of the most value to its
readers, and on careful selection of news
content. It was further commended on
variety of writing.

The alumnae office is still in need of the
following Briar Patches to complete the
file: 1915, 1916, 1923, 1925, 1929.

Erratum — Miss Mary Pearl is Instructor
in Greek and Latin instead of Modern Lan-
guages as printed in the March Alumnae
News.

Laurose Schulze-Berge, '35, has received
the award for the best short story sub-
mitted in the Writers' Contest held by the
Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
The story that won the award was "Bleak
Winter."

Jean Besselievre, '35, appointed by Dean
Emily H. Dutton as Sweet Briar's repre-
sentative to the World Affairs Institute
held in New York City, March 23, has the
distinction of being the first student repre-
sentative from any educational institution
to attend such a meeting.

The Institute, sponsored by seven wo-
men's organizations of New York City, was
held in the American Woman's Association
club-house in two sessions, afternoon and
evening. More than 2,000 people attended
the meetings. Among the delegates were
Miss Anne Morgan, representing A. W. A. ;
Miss Margaret Webster, Y. W. C. A.: Mrs.
Earl Hadley, Women's Liniversity Club;
Mrs. James Hollingsworth, League of Wo-
men Voters; and Mrs. Valentine Chandor,
A. A. U. W.

The general topic of discussion was
"America's Responsibility in World Af-
fairs."

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It is so long since tlie publication of a
set of Sweet Briar views tliat the College
this year has prepared a new collection of
pictures of college buildings and campus
scenes. These seventeen views are not
bound in a booklet, but enclosed in a heav'v
envelope so that selections mav be made
for framing and new pictures added by
the College from time to time.

Among the most familiar are Sweet
Briar House, seen from the front through
sweeping tree branches; Daisy's garden in
bright sunlight: the steps leading to Aca-
demic: an arcade with distant \iew of
Fergus Reid Hall: Fletcher and the In-
firmary each framed in foliage: the always
impressive Central Group, and a close-up

of the Refectory facade. The Boxwood
Inn is there and the Lake backed bv the
familiar Paul's.

Among the newer pictures are those of
the Daisy ^^ illiams Gvinnasium and [Nlarv
Helen Cochran Library. An unusual pic-
ture is diat of seven horsemen taking the
jumps at once at the May Day Horse Show,
and a picture of increasing value is the Old
Oak in "ft inter taken before its advancing
age made necessarv the shortening of its
branches. An aeroplane view shows the
whole College with some of the surround-
ing country. Best of all. there is the Cabin,
now the proud holder of the title: "Office
of the Sweet Briar Alumnae Association."

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Sweet Briar College History, 1900-1906

(Continued from Page 21)

The magnitude of the task accomplished
by the Board of Directors in the opening
of Sweet Briar College on September 27,
1906. can be only in part gauged by the
account of the work just given, as much
has been omitted. For the work of the
Board encountered various disintegrating
influences and onlv an earnest struggle on
the part of the directors enabled them to
protect Mrs. ^ illiams' bequest for the pur-
pose she designed. These struggles have
been passed over in order to show the con-
structive ^sork done. The directors were
all busv men. vet thev gave their time,
thought, and strength to lay a firm foun-
dation for the good of future generations.
We owe them gratitude for their generositv,
for their steadfastness and for their A'ision.

for it was our first Board of Directors
v.hich decided the memorial to Daisy \^ il-
liams should be a college and should be
undenominational. The successors to that
Board are building on that foundation. It
is notable that four of the seven directors
were clergvmen of the Episcopal Church
and in the chair v.as Bishop Randolph of
\ irginia.

In closing I wish to call attention to the
only member of the first Board of Directors
still with us. a man whose unflagging zeal
and devotion to Sweet Briar, evidenced
during the trying years of 1900 to 1906
has been continued over a quarter of a
century. Sweet Briar recognizes the many
great services rendered by Dr. Carl E.
Crammer. President of the Board of Direc-
tors.

The Flapper, 1796'

(Continued from Page 24)

in his car.' Say, that placeTl do for our
gang. But for Mumsy, no!"

\es, the flapper of 1796 has long been
buried far olf in his Emerald Island and
the customs of his day are not those of our
own. It was onlv passing foibles, ephe-
mera! faults, that he strove to correct bv
the sprightlv chidings of his news sheets, —
'"To catch, ere she change, the C^Tithia of
the minute," and impale her for the amused
observance of his countrvmen. But his
Cvnthias. old and voung. seem not vastlv
different from our own. And the function
of the flapper. — to see to it that eyes and
ears are kept alert and the immediacy of
the present recognized, is the same today
as it was in the days of Darius, of Philip
of Macedon. of the philosophers of La-
puta. "The flapper" savs the pleasant sage
of Dublin, ""applies warning at the instant
and. like Apollo, touches the ears of his
countrymen and rouses him in time from
his dangerous reverv." And whether this

be done by jazz or by a periodical essay,
the effect is no less beneficial.

The advice to the yoimg gentleman who
has embarked on a Universitv career is
still good: ""Let him seek recreation from
severer studies and prepare his mind for
more arduous exercises bv occasional cor-
respondence with the Flapper." But the
advice is no longer necessary. Though
dated 1796, many of these dusty pages still
seem pertinent, their titles still alluring:
""The Flapper's Remarks on Late Hours,"
""The Flapper's Dictionarv of Modern Lan-
guage." ""Follv of Being Overconscientious
in Matrimonial Selection." One would
learn of these. And if sometimes an
ounce of wit is too hea\ily outweighed by
a pound of chiding, it must be remembered
that the Dublin flapper is only striving to
justifv his existence as Flapper General to
all Ireland. For F s were S es in those
days. \^ ere the Flapper of 1796 to make
his reappearance today, he would have to
write himself down as the Slapper.

Sweet Briar College

Class Personals

ACADEMY

Hildegard Diechman Durfee has taken her Ph.D.
in Child Psychology from the University of
Vienna.

Ruth Harvey Keeling and Mr. Keeling were on
campus en route to Washington from White
Sulphur Springs, late in April.

Helen Pennock Jewett and Mr. Jewett were on
campus en route to Richmond from their home in
Cleveland.

Dunbar Avireit Annan will be included in the
forthcoming publication, "Maiyland Woman,"
which is being edited by Mrs. Edmond Boone
Luckett, of Baltimore. Mrs. Annan is being
recognized for her work as one of the outstand-
ing entertainment workers with the A. E. F. in
France. At the close of her work she received
a special medal in Paris for "Distinguished Ser-
vice in Entertaining the Army."

Feme Cash La Fon has returned to her home
after an extensive visit with friends in West
Virginia.

Dorothy Peckivell Cremer has moved to Cleve-
land, Ohio, to live.

Maiy Parrish Ferguson was on campus recent-
ly. She was accompanied by Dr. Ferguson and
her youngest son.

Carolyn Gwathmey Davidson has moved to Coro-
nado, California, to live.

The Alumnae Association records with deep re-
gret the untimely death of Eleanor Moore Randall,
who died on April 20.

Lillian Foster Fargo accompanied by her
daughter, who will enter in 1934, spent May
Day on campus.

Maiy Lorton Sims spent a day on campus re-
cently.

Anna Fawcus Nakes spent May Day on campus.

1912
Velna White Hostetter, ex-"12, spent several
weeks on campus with her daughter Hortense, '34.

1913
Elizabeth Franke Balls, accompanied by her
husband and her son, spent a day on campus
recently.

1914
Pauline Darnell Orgill, ex-'14, is spending soms
time in Beverly Hill, California.

1915

Anne Schutle Nolt has been devoting most of
her time to the production of marionette shows
for the Lancaster Junior League.

Harriet Evans Wyckoff represented Sweet Briar
at the Centennial Celebration of Gettysburg Col-
lege, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on May 27.

Helen Baker Waller, ex-'15, who has been sec-
retary of the Writers' Club of Norfolk, Virginia,
for several years, will be represented in Mary
Sinton Leitch's Anthology of Virginia Poets to

appear this fall. Mrs. Waller recently gave a
reading before The Poetry Society of Virginia at
their spring meeting.

1916

Helen Babcock Nevins, ex-"16, and her husband,
were on campus the last of April.

1917

Martha Darden Ziezing, accompanied by Mr.
Ziezing and their son, was on campus for a day,
en route to Virginia Beach, where they will spend
a couple of weeks.

Dorothy Grammer Krauter. ex-'17, has a daugh-
ter, born the middle of Februaiy.

Elsie Palmer Parkhurst, ex-"17, has a daughter,
Elsie, born in December.

1918

Margaret McVey stopped to see Julia Barber
Taylor, e.x-'18, en route to Gadsden, Alabama,
where she will spend several weeks.
1919

Elizabeth Eggleston spent a few days recently
with Dr. Harley at the Infirmary.

1920

Ruth Hulburd Luff is taking a secretarial
course in New York City.

Elmira Pennypacker Coxe has returned from
Bermuda, where she spent her honeymoon.

1921

Ellen Jf'olj Halsey spent several days the mid-
dle of May on campus.

Rhoda Allen Worden has a son, John Allen,
born May 18.

Elizabeth Claxton Lewis, ex-"21, has moved to
Bethesda, Maryland, to live.

1922

Louise Evans Shidler was on campus recently,
accompanied by her parents.

Marion Walker Neidlinger, spent some time
in New York in January visiting her sister-in-law,
Mary Wilson Walker, '24, and in Princeton, where
Mr. Neidlinger is coach of the hockey team.

Lilias Shepherd is spending several months in
Europe.

1923

Marie Klooz, accompanied by her mother, is
spending the summer at Boxwood Inn.

LaVerne McGee Olney has moved to Coronado
Beach, California, to live.

1924

Marian Swannell Wright has a daughter, Susan
Endicott, born Februaiy 23.

Kathryn Klump McGuire is dancing in Summer
Opera in Cleveland.

Bemice Hulburd Wain has a son, born May 28.

Mary Rich was on campus recently, accom-
panied by her sister, Robins Rich Adams, '27,
and Mr. Adams and their daughter.

Alumnae News

Elizabeth Brewster, ex-"24, is now Mrs. W. E.
Tempel, and has moved to Los Angeles, California,
to live.

Susan Roy Johnston, ex-"24, has announced her
engagement to Mr. Charles Hill Jones.

1925

Katherine Agard has moved to Hollywood,
California, to live.

Susan Hager Rohrer, accompanied by Louise
W'olj Starke, ex-"25, and Romayne Schooley
Ferenbach, ex-'25, spent several days on campus
this spring.

Mary Nadine Pope was married June 1 to Mr.
Carrington Brush Phillips and has moved to
Akron, Ohio, to live.

Virginia Buffington, ex-"25, is now Mrs. Ben-
jamin Wham and is living in Evanston, Illinois.

Virginia fFhitlock Cobb, ex-'25, was on campus
for May Day.

1926

Kathaiyn Norris Kelley has a daughter, Pris-
cilla, born March 21.

Page Dunlap Dee has a son, J. Roy. Jr

Dorothy Keller is doing volunteer work for the
Family Welfare Association in Pittsburgh.

Margaret Laidley was on campus May Day.

Katherine Blount will represent the college on
June 21 when she will attend th= inauguration of
Dr. William A. Boylan as President of Brooklyn
College, Brooklyn, New York.

Margaret Malone McClements has a baby boy
born in April.

Dorothy Hamilton Davis has been visiting Doro-
thy McKee AIney in Fort Worth.

Margaret White is spending some time in the
east.

Catherine Shulenberger received her B.S.L.
degree this June from the Drexel Institute in
Philadelphia.

Helen Carter Bailey has a second son, Donald,
born in May.

Elizabeth Cobb Sutherland is now living in
Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Elizabeth Holtzman, ex-'26, was married recent-
ly to Mr. J. Lawrence Sellman.

Mary E. Stoddard, ex-'26, is spending some
time in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Alice Rogers Enochs, ex-'26. has a son, Philip.

1927

Nancy Sherrell Moses has a son, Walter Sher-
rell, born April 4.

Elizabeth Mathews Wallace has a daughter,
Elizabeth, born April 22.

Evelyn Anderson was mar-ried last February to
Mr. Richard Tull.

Cornelia Wailes has sailed for Europe, where
she will spend the summer.

Jane Riddle is secretary to the principal of the
High School at her home in Danville, Virginia.

Roberta Lee Perrin, ex-"27, was married on
May 11 to Mr. Chester De Forest Adams.

Margaret Hagan Brown, ex-"27, has a son, Theo-
dore, Jr.

1928

Louise Conklin is now Mrs. David Hedges
Knowles.

Helen Davis has returned from an extended
trip in Cuba.

Emily Farrell Cornell has a daughter, born
February 4.

Mary Louise Shidler Alney has moved to
Chesterton, Indiana, to live.

Sarah Dance Krook has moved from her home
in Tulsa to New York City to live.

Jocelyn Watson Regen spent several days on
campus late in April. She was accompanied by
her husband, the Reverend Kelso Regen.

Marguerite Hodnett McDaniel has returned to
her home in Atlanta from her honeymoon spent
in Florida.

Dorothy Meginnis was married on May 21 to
Mr. Donald John Horn.

Mary Nelms Locke, ex-"28, has a daughter, Nan
Chadwick, born April 5.

Josephine Halsey, ex-'28, is now Mrs. Carl
Buel Day and is living in Dobbs Feny, New York.

1929

Adelaide Henderson was married on April 23
to Mr. William Frederick Eve Cabaniss.

Margaret Moncure was married on April 8 to
Mr. Francis Johnson.

Evelyn Ballard was married recently to Mr. J.
Eustice Chilton, II.

Sarah Callison Jamison has moved to Lafayette,
Indiana, to live.

Maria Bemiss Hoar, accompanied by her hus-
band, spent a week-end on campus recently.

Mildred Earl Lewis is working in Washington,
D. C.

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was married April 1
are spending four

Margaret Timmerman Hersloff and her husband
spent a day on campus recently.

Ahvyn Redmond Barlow has a daughter. Boyce,
born on March 14.

Emily Braswell returned the last of May from
a ten months' tour around the world.

Maiy McDiarmid will be married on June 25
to Mr. \ ictor Piene Serodino.

Martha Dabn'y Jones is getting her M.A. at
the University of North Carolina.

Mai-y Shelton Clark has a son. born in May.

Helen Miller and Ann Mason Brent Winn
were on campus May Day week-end.

Katherne Mites Armstrong, ex-"29. has a daugh-
ter. Katherine Marian, born on April 8.

Jane Schoentgen. ex-'29, is now Mrs. Karl F.
Geiser.

Adelaide Richardson. ex-"29, has been visiting
on a ranch in Mexico.

Marian Sommers, ex-"29,
to Mr. Guido Nadzo. They
months in France and Italy.

Elizabeth Preston Biyan, ex-'29, was married
on May 21 to Mr James Roosevelt Stockton, in
Jacksonville, Florida.

MaiT V. Pudley, ex- "29, is now Mrs. Harvey J.
Lambert and is living in Antlers. Oklahoma.

Jane Wilkinson, ex-"29, has returned from a
cruise tlirough the West Indies.

1930

Norvell Royer has announced her engagement
to Mr. John Orgain.

Claire Giesecke was married on May 20 to Mr.
William Phillip Walker, Jr.

Merry Curtis is doing social service work at
the University of Chicago.

Alice Blake is spending several months travel-
ling abroad with her parents.

Florence Lodge AlcCall has a son. Johnson
Michael, born March 21.

Elizabeth Johnston was married recently to
Mr. John Carson Cook.

Gladys Wester was married on May 20 to Mr.
Samuel Mead Horton.

Norvell Royer. Frances Harrison. Elizabeth
Bane, Adelaide Wampler, Jean Saunders. Eliza-
beth Stevenson and Agnes Sproul were on campus
May Day week-end.

Josephine Reid has been visiting Ruth Hasson
in Pittsburgh.

Helen Smith Miller is now living in San
Antonio, where her husband is stationed at the
Randolph flying field.

Elizabeth Carnes. ex-'30, is a stenographer in
the office of the Amercan Can Company in
Tampa, Florida.

Dorothea Paddock. ex-'30. and Dorothy Dar-
row, ex-"29. motored to Sweet Briar for several
days early in April.

Sally Reahard. ex-"30. was on campus for sev-
eral days recently.

Martha Lamberth, ex-'30, is working at Macy's
in New York.

Sara Buckley, ex-'30, has a secretarial position.

1931
Martha von Briesen has been spending several
weeks in Texas. She was one of the attendants
at the wedding of Claire Giesecke.

Mary Lynn Carlson was married on May 21 to
Mr. Huger King. Among those from her class in
the wedding party were: Cynthia Vaughn, Eliza-
beth Stribling, Meta Moore. Maiy Lee Seaton
and ^'irginia Keyser.

Frances 0"Brian has announced her engagement
to Mr. Ames Bartlett Hettrick.

Gertrude Lewis was married March 18 to Mr
Samuel Magavern. She and her husband visited
campus on their way to Texas.

Frances Kelley is working for an insurance
company in Hampton, Virginia.

Jane Bikle is secretary in the office of a doctor
at her home in Hagerstown. Maryland.

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Elizabeth Conover was married on June 11 to
Mr. George Gratton. Ill, and will move to Har-
risonburg, Virginia, to live.

Evelyn Mullen is in the Libraiy School at the
University of North Carolina.

Virginia Quintard is working in the dental
clinic in Stamford. Connecticut, and also is doing
family welfare work.

Margaret Ferguson has a full time job with
the Family Welfare Association in Pittsburgh.

Mary Lou Flournoy has returned from a several
months" cruise of the Mediterranean.

Helen Sims is spending the month of April in
Italy.

Elizabeth McRae. Mary Stuart Kelso Clegg,
Jessie Hall. Charlotte Kent, Elizabeth Stribling
Martha Tiller>-. Agnes Cleveland. Jean Col%
Peronne \^ hittaker and Natalie Roberts were on
campus during May Day week-end.

V irginia Aldeen Derby, ex-'31, was manned to
Mr. Kenneth Howse, on April 20.

Elizabeth Wooledge. ex-"31, is a student die-
titian at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in
Boston.

Elizabeth D. Kremsr, ex-"31, is now teaching
Home Economics and English in the Hancock
High School, Hancock, Maryland.

Dorothy Ayres. ex-"31, was manied .April 2 to
-Mr. John Eliot Holt. Pauline W'oodicard Hill,
"31. and Eda Bainbridge McKnight, ex- "31, were
in the wedding party.

EX 1932

.Aurelia Lane was married recntly to Mr. John
Hopkins.

Lilian Shidler is working in her father"5 office
in South Bend. Indiana.

Betsy Hun McAUen spent April 23 on campus.

Jean Hathaway is working at the Orange Crush
Company in Chicago.

Elizabeth Clary spent the winter studying at
George V^'ashington University.

Eleanor Arthur and Margaret Coulson, ex- "33,
both attended the University of Arizona this
winter.

Hallie Orr has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
During her two years at Sweet Briar she was an
honor student.

Mildred Hodges and Mary Rennie were on
campus for May Day week-end.

Martha Henderson has returned to her home in
Birmingham after completing her work at the
Fine and Applied Arts School in New Yoi'k.

Marjoi'y Blaikie spent a week on campus re-
cently.

Eleanor Nolte was crowned queen of the San
Antonio Fiesta on April 21.

EX 1933

Martha OBrian, Josephine Rucker, and Mary
Paulding Murdock were on campus May Day
week-end.

Kathleen Carmichael spent a day on campus
recently.

EX 1934

Mai-y E. Young has been attending the Uni-
versity at Tulsa.

Nancy Savage and Anne Kuss spent a week-
end on campus recently.

Marjoiy Collins will be married on June 23 to
Mr. John Ireland Howe Baur.

Janet Blood was married recently to Ml".
William Kiiight Brown, Jr., and will move to
Denver, Colorado, to live.

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College at Su'eet Briar, in Amherst County, J irginia, the sum

of $ , to be invested and from time to time

re-invested by said Corporation as it shall deem best, and to

be called the Endowment Fund. The

interest and income therefrom shall be applied by said Cor-
poration to the payment of the salaries of its teachers as it
shall deem expedient.

I give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County. Virginia, the sum

of $ - , to be used and appropriated by said

Corporation for its benefit in such manner as it shall deem to
be most useful.

I give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ to be invested and from time to time

re-invested by said Corporation as it shall deem best, and to

be called the..- Scholarship Fund, the

interest and income to be applied by said Corporation to the
aiding of its deserving students in Sweet Briar Institute or
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Sweet Briar College

OCTOBER 1932

THE ALUMNAE NEWS

PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

Four times a year— March, June, October and December
Subscription Rate $1.00 a year; Single Copies, 30 Cents

Entered as Second Class Matter November 23, 1931, at the Post Office at Sweet Briar, Virginia,
under the Act of March 3, 1879

OCTOBER, 1932

VOLUME II.

NUMBER 1.

The Alumnae News is a member of the American Alumni Council

THE SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

President

EDNA LEE WOOD (Mrs. John Clark I, "26
60 Giamercy Park, New York City

First Vice-President

KATHARYN NORRIS KELLEY
(Mrs. Stillman F. 11), "26
Clark Road, Babson Park

Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts

Second Vice-President

ALICE WEYMOUTH. '32
152 Central Avenue, Flushing, New York

Treasurer

JEANETTE BOONE, -27
Sweet Briar, Virginia

Alumnae Secretary

VIVIENNE BARK.\LOW BRECKENRIDGE,

'18

Sweet Briar, \'irginia

Members of the Council

MARGARET BANISTER. '16
Sweet Briar, Virginia

DOROTHY KELLER, '26

125 South Lexington Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

GERTRUDE DALLY, 22

242 Noble Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

GERTRUDE PRIOR, '29
29 Fisher Place, Trenton, New Jersey

MARGARET McVEY, "18 (Henoraiy Member i
1417 Grove Avenue. Richmond. \ irginia

^toeet ISriar 3Iiimnae Jl3etos

Editor — Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge, '18

Table of Contents

The Monument Frontispiece

To All Sweet Brl\r Alumnae 3

Editorials 4

New Office of the Alumnae Association 4

With the President 5

R'Urcaret Banister, '16, Returns to Sweet Briar 6

We Point With Pride To — 6

Emilie W.iTTS McVea 7

Alumnae Funds — A History of Fund Raising 10

Announcements 14

From the Office of the Registrar 15

Founders' Day 15

From the Athletic Department 16

A College Education — What Is It? 16

News of Lectures and Concerts 16

Class Presidents 16

Mount Saint Angelo — A Chronicle 17

The Modern Novel 23

Conning the Campaign 27

You and Your Government by Radio 30

Sweet Briar China 31

Campus News 33

Vacation with the Faculty 37

Class Personals 39

The Monument

To All Sweet Briar Alumnae

Dear Alumnae:

You cannot imagine what a thrill it is
to be able to write to all of you! It is
one of the nicest parts of this big job that
you have given me, and in this, my very
first message, I send a sincere "Thank you"
to each one of you for the great honor of
being your President, and a pledge that I
will try in every way to be worthy of your
trust.

Sweet Briar has many things of which
to be proud this fall. First of all, the fine
enrollment in a year when most colleges
are sadly depleted. It is an indication of
her standing in the educational world, the
commendable ambition of the students, and
the wise and benevolent planning of the
administration. Next her leadership in the
plan for the Junior Year in the British Isles
is especially noteworthy. I had the pleas-
ure of seeing Miss Glass and the three girls
as they sailed from the New York harbor.
Then, there is the progressive new Alumnae
Magazine, for which thanks go to our Sec-
retary. Can not we this year make our
Alma Mater prouder than ever of her

Alumnae Association? The foundations
are well laid, and the true cooperation of
each one of us will accomplish our pur-
pose. Please, will you not write to me if
you have any ideas which you think would
help either the Association or a local club?
Or better still, try to come down to Sweet
Briar for Founders' Day and we will talk
things over. Miss Glass will be back and
Sir James C. Irvine, Principal and Vice-
Chancellor of St. Andrews University,
where our juniors are, is expected to speak.

And while we are on the subject of
travel, it's not too early to begin saving
pennies for your commencement trip. It's
truly an unforgettable experience. You
will love every minute and go home feel-
ing twenty again ! I am going down next
week for a few days and am getting youth-
ful at the mere thought!

My best wishes for a happy year's work
for Sweet Briar!

Yours sincerely,

Edna Lee Wood, '26.

EDITORIALS

THIS fall of 1932 marks the begin-
ning of the seventh year of a resi-
dent alumnae secretary at Sweet
Briar. The Almiinae Association has
emerged from these six years with a well
established office, because of your excel-
lent co-operation, both mdividually and
collectively, in your clubs. We have stood
tlie strain of the depression and, therefore,
have every reason to anticipate that this
coming year will be more successful than
ever.

Many of you who have been fortunate
enough to be able to return to the college
within these past six years have realized
that your Alumnae Association is a ''going
concern", but for those of you who have
not had this privilege the activities of your
Association may have become vague to you.
It has, therefore, occurred to us that you
might be more than interested in the six
fundamental projects of the office. Bear
in mind, please, that these are not all ac-
complished, but that they form the work-
ing basis for what we are striving to do.
Space does not permit to give the full de-
tails of how each is being carried out.
Some are more successful than others, and
all but one have a rather well-established
program to follow.

Our prime interest is very naturally to
promote the general welfare of Sweet
Briar. This we have tried to do in every
way, but especially by restoring and

strengthening contacts between former stu-
dents and the college. Second, since no
Alumnae Association can afford to be a
drain on the college budget, we have
striven for and achieved stable financing
for the Association. Third, as our Alum-
nae Clubs form our greatest means of united
strength and source of income, we are con-
stantly endeavoring to organize more clubs
and be of greater help to those already
formed. Fourth, we have, in a meagre
way, sought to encourage a continuation
of the intellectual work of our graduates,
as advised and aided by the college. Our
fifth policy deals entirely with the under-
graduate body. An effort is made to in-
terest this group in the Association and to
develop in them an appreciation of what
the Association will mean to them in the
years to come. Our sixth task, which
though listed last, is by no means the least,
is the development of better financial sup-
port for the college. Our start in this re-
spect is the gift each year of the Manson
Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Every Sweet Briar girl has her chance
to help in some phase of our Alumnae
work, which we think of as building sound-
ly for the future. Every alumna may say
as did Horace:

"Exegi monumentum acre perennius."
"I have built me a monument more en-
during than bronze."

New OflBce of the Alumnae
Association

The Sweet Briar Alumnae Association
has loaned, with the greatest pleasure, its
permanent office, The Cabin, to Mr. Percy
MacKaye for this year. Our new office is
located in the small parlor in Grammer.
We count it such a privilege to have Mr.
MacKaye here that we were more than
willing to co-operate with the college in
making suitable arrangements for his stay
on campus.

Alumnae News

With the President

President Glass accompanied by Kathe-
rine Williams, Alice Shirley, and Mary
Walton McCandlish, die three students who
are to have their jmiior year at St. Andrews
University, Scotland, sailed from New
York, September 24, on the S. S. Britan-
nica. The party was joined at the boat
by Miss Denise du Pont, who is returning
to England to continue her studies in Kent.

Katherine will continue her study of
English, while Alice will specialize in
Science, and Marv Walton in History.
Thev will live in Lniversity Hall, a large
dormitory for women. All three of these

students will return to Sweet Briar for
their senior year.

They are seeking new contacts in a
British institution similar to those which
other Sweet Briar students have had in
French and German colleges under the
Delaware plan for stud)- abroad. St.
Andrews with its ancient traditions, mod-
ern educational methods, and hospitable
atmosphere, located in a picturesque gray-
city by the sea, promises to be a charming
place in which to spend a year.

Miss Glass will remain abroad only a
short time returning to the college for
Founders' Day.

Ella Barnett — Photo

Off to Scotland
Alice Shirley, Maiy Walton McCandlish, Miss Glass, Denise du Pont, Katherine Williams

Sweet Briar College

Margaret Banister, '16, Returns to Sweet Briar

EVERY member of the Sweet Briar
Alumnae Association will be more
than pleased and gratified to know
that Miss Margaret Banister, '16, has been
appointed on the Adminis-
trative Staff of the College,
to edit its bulletins, take
charge of publicity, advise
with the board of student
publications and cultivate
contacts for the college.
No one in the Association
is more capable of filling
this office. No one in the
Association is more beloved
than our Ban, and no one
knows better than she the
traditions of the college.
During the four years that she was a stu-
dent she held many offices and was in her
senior year president of Student Govern-
ment. In 1917-1919 she was president of

the Alumnae Association and again from
1926-1930. During the Endowment Fund'
Campaign of 1928 she was National Alum-
nae Chairman and also acting Field Direc-
tor for Virginia. Ban has
a real knowledge of what
publicity means to Sweet
Briar, and has had much
experience in the field. She
studied writing two years at
Colimibia, was Editor of
the bulletin of the Woman's
Democratic Club in Wash-
ington for three years and
has been the Assistant Editor
and had charge of make-up
on the Washingtonian Maga-
zine for three years. This ap-
pointment has been made as soon as pos-
sible after the request of the Alumnae As-
sociation for enlarged publicity last June,
and Margaret Banister was our choice.

We Point With Pride To

The new Sweet Briar tea sets and after
dinner coffee cups.

The Alumnae Club of Pittsburgh. They
started the fall activities with a tea for the
new students entering college this fall and
they plan their first benefit for the year
when they will give a duplicate contract
bridge tournament, on October 18, at the
Hotel Schenley. This function is in addi-
tion to the rummage sale that they will
have next spring.

Eight little sisters and three grand-
daughters among the freshmen.

Helen Baker Waller, ex-'15, who will be
represented in Mary Sinton Leitch's An-
thologv of Poets, which will appear this
fall.

Dr. Raymond's new book, "Oliver's Sec-
retary: John Milton in an Era of Revolt."
Dr. Ravmond is Professor of History at
Sweet Briar.

Alumnae News

Emilie Watts McVea

Reproduction of the portrait
of the late President Emilie
Watts McVea presented to
the college by the Sweet Briar
Alumnae Club of Cincinnati
and Miss Josephine Simeral,
former member of the Sweet
Briar faculty, and a life long
friend of Miss McVea's. The
artist is Miss Dixie Seldon of
Cincinnati.

Remarks at the Memorial Service at
Rollins College

By Charles William Dabney

(Editor's Note — It will be remembered that after the death of President McVea a bulletin was
published, by the college, containing the addresses which were made at the Memorial Sen'ices at
Sweet Briar for President McVea. A similar Memorial S'ei-vice was held at Rollins College, Winter
Park, Florida. Dr. Dabney, former President of the University of Cincinnati, made the address at
that sei-vice, which is herewith published.)

be associated with her in service many
years. Her mother, a Louisiana lady, was

NO eulogy of Emilie Watts McVea
is necessary but a few words about
her faithful and beautiful life may
strengthen us.

It was my privilege to know Emilie
Watts McVea almost continuously from
the time she was a girl of fifteen and to

left a widow when Emilie was only nine
years old and brought her three little girls
to St. Mary's Institute. Raleigh, North
Carolina, to be educated. I remember
Emilie as a handsome, bright-eyed girl, a

Sweet Briar College

member of a class which I taught for a
short time. She was an ambitious, earnest,
and successful student, and. from the very
beginning, a leader in everything. Wlien
she was graduated at seventeen, she was
intensely anxious to go to college, but be-
fore doing this, she had to wait until she
could accumulate some small earnings.
She then entered Cornell with the purpose
of taking the full course, but her hopes
were shattered almost immediately by the
death of a sister. Emilie had known the
meaning of poverty from her childhood
and now she had to go to work to support
her mother and sister, a necessity which
followed her during almost her entire life.

At twenty we find her so ready in heart
and mind that she was called to St. Mary's
to begin her life-long service. She did
her work there so successfully, developing
those w"onderful powers as teacher and
friend of young people which characterized
her whole career, that before her twenty-
fifth birthdav she was made principal of
St. Mary's.

Her ambition for a higher education
never died, however, and as soon as she
was able, she took her mother and sister
to Washington, where for a number of
years, she tausht and studied until she
completed the bachelor course she desired
and took her master's degree at George
Washington University.

In her vacations while at George Wash-
ington, she taught in summer schools for
teachers, early developing the powers and
making the reputation, which led to her
appointment as assistant professor of Eng-
lish in the University of Tennessee when
she was just past thirty. Here she devel-
oped rapidly, blossoming out in full wo-
manlv character.

Recognizing her remarkable ability as a
leader, administrator, and especially as a
guide and counsellor for young women.
Miss McVea was induced to go to the Lni-
versity of Cincinnati with me and was soon
appointed Dean of Women in that institu-
tion. This position she filled with great
benefit, rot merely to the women students,
but to the entire Lniversity. She was
chiefly instrumental in securing a building
for the social and recreational uses of the

women. Such a woman could not be con-
fined to academic halls, and. her reputa-
tion extending throughout the community,
she soon became the leading woman in
Cincinnati, as well as in the University.
Twice elected President of the Woman's
Club, she associated herself with every im-
portant social movement, — the movement
of the high schools, teacher training, child
labor, recreation facilities, musical culture,
the drama, church work and charities, and
all the interests of the home. The enfran-
chisement of women, then an unsettled
question, she advocated, not as the mere
recognition of the equality of men and
women, but as a matter of justice to a
defenseless minority in the state. A proud
daughter of the South, she was ever an
earnest champion of democracy and of
state's rights, and an eloquent interpreter
of Southern literature and history, con-
tributing manv articles to the reviews and

Wlien the Rector of Sweet Briar College
asked me to recommend a president for his
college, who was a scholar, teacher, leader,
and administrator, exemplar and guide for
young women, above all. a Christian — and
he added rather apologetically, preferably
an Episcopalian — I told him that I knew
of only one such woman and she was
with us and could not possibly be spared.
Learning more later, however, of the op-
portunitv for a great piece of constructive
work at Sweet Briar. I recognized that Miss
McVea should decide for herself and so
submitted the proposal to her. Although
brilliantly successful and as devoted to her
friends in Cincinnati as they were to her.
Miss McVea thought it her duty to go to
Sweet Briar. So we crowned her Doctor
of Literature and most regretfully bade her
God speed.

As President of Sweet Briar College, Dr.
McVea was able to put forth all her splen-
did talents, now fuUv matured. She raised
the standards, strengthened the faculty, in-
creased the endowments, and made many
other improvements. She was soon recog-
nized in Virginia, as she had been in Ohio,
and though an outsider, which always sig-
nifies something in the Old Dominion, she
was appointed the first woman trustee of
its Lniversitv.

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Never strong physically, our friend
fought the weakening effects of an old ill-
ness for years. Her limited store of energy
never retarded her, however, when duty
called. Failing under the stress of these
tremendous efforts at Sweet Briar, she was
constrained, at last, to give up the position,
but only after the college had been re-
created and established on a solid founda-
tion. After she had recuperated partially
in Florida, Rollins College was fortunate
in securing her services.

Wliat gave Emilie McVea her exception-
al power as a teacher, leader, and molder
of character? Her scholarship was great:
others have had equal learning. She was
an admirable teacher, but we have known
others her equal. She was a fine adminis-
trator; there have been others. But I have
never known her equal as a builder of
character and an inspirer of high living.
How did she do this? It was her high
ideals, her capacity for friendship, her ex-
traordinary understanding of human na-
ture, her generous charity, and far-reaching
sympathy — as she herself expressed it, her
"love for folks" — that encouraged the weak
£ind erring, lifted up the downcast, and in-
spired all who came under her magnetic
influence to seek to live nobler lives. She
taught English literature, not as a mere
academic subject, but as an introduction
to life, and to sit under her was to hear
a poet tell of the duties and beauties of
life, a prophet warn of its disappointments

and dangers, and to behold a splendid vic-
tor in life's battles.

In a natural grove on a red hill, sur-
rounded by wide cotton fields, on the out-
skirts of the city, where she received her
early training and did her first teaching
and where in later years she made a home
for her mother, is the resting place of our
friend. It is called Oakwood, for the giant
oaks tliat adorn it. With a friend, I sought
this place on a bright November day, when
the golden, brown, and scarlet leaves were
falling and the autumn flowers were in
their glory. The natural forest has been
preserved, and the formal divisions and
geometrical forms, which mar most of our
cemeteries, excluded. There on a sunny
eastern slope under a giant oak, close
alongside her mother and sister, for whom
she labored so many years, rests our friend.
Acorns were scattered everywhere, and the
ground, far and wide, was covered with
golden rod and purple asters. Springing
up out of the deep soil under this big tree,
were scores of young shoots. I thought,
how like her beautiful life, these spon-
taneous, natural flowers: and how typical
that fruitful oak of her character, which
inspired so many young lives to grow up
in strength and beauty. It was sweet to
see this charming, natural resting place of
our friend and it was inspiring and deeply
consoling to realize from it that her soul
will ever live in the lives of others.

Sweet Briar College

Alumnae Funds — A History of Fund Raising

(Editor's Note — The History of Fund RaUing is the first of a series of articles on this inter-
esting subject that will appear in the Alumnae Neivs each issue during the coming year. This
article was written by Harold Flack, Executive Secretary of The Comellian Council, Cornell Uni-
versity, and is the first chapter of the new book, recently published by the American Alumni
Council, An Alumni Fund Survey. The request from our own alumnae to know more of the history,
organization and value of Alumnae Funds has prompted the printing of these articles. The second.
Objectives of Fund Raising, ivdll appear in the December issue of the Alumnae News.)

THIS chapter is intended to cover some
of the significant trends in fund rais-
ing by V^erican colleges and univer-
sities since 1890. That date marks the be-
ginning of the organized period of fund
raising by alumni.

The beginning of fund raising for col-
leges and universities began with the found-
ing of Harvard College in 1636 and efforts
to secure funds for institutions of higher
learning in this country have continued un-
interruptedly to the present time. A book
entitled "Alumni Stimulation by the Amer-
ican College President," written by Dr.
Webster Schultz Stover, and published by
Teachers College, Columbia University,
contains a very interesting history of fund
raising in American colleges from its in-
ception, giving particularly the part which
the presidents have taken in these efforts.
It might safely be said that practically all
efforts to raise money for American col-
leges before 1890 were made or stimulated
by college presidents, and the annual re-
ports of the presidents were used largely
for this purpose.

With the establishment of the Yale
Alumni Fund in 1890, an entirely new
idea came into being so far as the raising
of funds for colleges and universities was
concerned. The report of the Yale Alumni
Association for the )ear ending June 30,
1931 gives the following statement cover-
ing the early history and purposes of their
fund:

In June, 1890. the Corporation established
the "Alumni University Fund" in response
to resolutions of the New York alumni, and
at Commencement of that year there was
organized an association "to be known as
The Alumni University Fund Association,"
to be managed by nine directors, alumni of
Yale, appointed by the President of the Uni-
versity.

The Idea Back of the Fund

The establishment of the Yale Alumni Fund
in 1890 was a recognition of the strong desire
of every Yale man to serve. In the words of
the founders, '"A widespread sentiment has
existed for some time among Yale graduates
in favor of some systematic endeavor to in-
crease the resources of the University." Until
the Alumni Fund was organized, there was
no practical way for the great mass of grad-
uates to help the University, to give tangible
evidence of their loyalty and to have a share
in making possible for others the benefits
which they themselves had enjoyed.

A report of the Yale Alumni Fund indi-
cates that in the first year of the fund there
were 385 contributors, the total receipts
were $11,015.88, and the gross receipts for
the fund from its inception to June 30,
1931 were $9,984,094.62.

The Yale Alumni Fund grew slowly at
first, but the growth was steady and the
habit of giving on the part of Yale grad-
uates became so strong that at the end of
twenty-five years the alumni were contri-
buting more than $100,000 a year to their
alumni fund. Just before the war, this
was regarded as a fairly substantial annual
amount. During the war years, however,
when a large percentage of the undergrad-
uates marched off to war and when the
University was faced with a real financial
problem, the Yale alumni responded most
generously to the University's appeal
and their Alumni Fund averaged about
$.500,000 annually during those war years.

Some fifteen years after the founding of
the Yale Alumni Fund, similar funds were
established at Princeton, Amherst, Dart-
mouth, Cornell, and a few other places.

The Dartmouth Alumni Fund, which is
one of the most successful funds in the
country, was founded in 1906 during the
administration of President Tucker. The
Dartmouth Alumni Council took over the

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work of the Alumni Fund in 1914. Up
until this time only a small percentage of
alumni had contributed.

The Cornell Lniversity Alumni Fund
was founded in 1908. An organization,
named the Cornellian Council, was or-
ganized by the alumni to "stimulate the
interest of the alumni in the financial sup-
port of the University." All funds col-
lected bv this organization were turned over
to the treasurer of the Lniversity and cred-
ited to the "Alimini Fund." These funds
were subject to appropriation by the trus-
tees of the University for University pur-
poses. It took four years to build up a net
fund of S20,000. but in 1929-30 the un-
restricted contributions to the Cornell
Alumni Fund reached S178.000 with a total
of 10,134 givers.

Other annual alumni funds have had
similar small beginnings but have become
tremendous assets to those institutions
where they have been in continuous exist-
ence for many years.

The next significant event in fund rais-
ing in American colleges and universities
took place at Harvard in 1904-05. Presi-
dent Eliot had pointed out in his report of
1904 that Harvard needed an addition of
S2,.500.000 to her endowment fund for fa-
culty salaries, for retiring allowances and
for the permanent endowment of professor-
ships. The alumni of Harvard accepted
this statement by Dr. Eliot as a challenge
and an alumni committee was formed with
Bishop William Lawrence, president of the
Alumni Association, as the chairman of the
committee. It was rare good fortune for
Harvard to have Bishop Lawrence as the
chairman of this committee. From the ex-
perience of this and subsequent campaigns
(for the pension fund for the Episcopal
Church, for the Harvard Business School.
and in war service drives ) , Bishop Law-
rence proved himself to be one of the really
great money raisers of tliis country. He
tells in a delightful way in his autobiog-
raphy how diis campaign was organized,
and how in one year about S2,400.000 was
raised from approximately 2,000 Harvard
alumni. This was done by personal inter-
views, by letters, and by circular's sent to
all Harvard graduates.

This campaign is mentioned because it
was by far the most successful effort that
had been organized up to that time to raise

capital funds for any university. In fact,
no University had ever before raised as
much as 81,000,000 in any one effort. Col-
lege administrators and alumni fund raisers
are advised to read Bishop Lawrence's
Memories of a Happy Life, for some very
interesting and instructive information cov-
ering his experience in fund raising.

Subsequent to the raising of this fund.
President Eliot reported that the class of
1881 had made a twenty-fifth anniversary
gift to the University of $113,776.66, the
income to be used for unrestricted pur-
poses. Each class since that time has fol-
lowed this precedent and has contributed
a fund of at least $100,000 on the occa-
sion of their twenty-fifth reunion. This
sum has been increased in recent years.

Another very significant development of
fund raising in American colleges and uni-
versities was the formation of a '"Commit-
tee of Fifty at Princeton to secure pledges
for current expenses and for endowment,
called for by the installation by President
Wilson of the Preceptorial System of in-
struction, and by the building program
laid before the University."

Mr. Francis G. Langdon '81, who was
chairman of the National Alumni Asso-
ciation in 1926, made the following state-
ment at the Centennial meeting of the
National Alumni Association on February
22, 1926 in an address entitled Alumni of
Princeton :

Four years later, in December. 1904, another
far-reaching step was taken when the Com-
mittee of Fifty, with Cleveland H. Dodge '79
as Chairman, and George W. Burleigh "92 as
Secretary, succeeded by Harold G. Mun'ay
"93. was appointed by the Trustees, to secure
pledges for cuiTent expenses and for endow-
ment called for by the installation by Presi-
dent Wilson of the Preceptorial System of
instruction and by the building program laid
before the University. The appointment of
this Committee marked the opening of the
third and last period in the histoiy of the
Alumni Association. The first meeting of the
Committee of Fifty was held in Januaiy 1905.
Eighteen months later it had reported annual
pledges of S126.909 and endowment pledges
of S500.000. What Princeton alumni were
doing for Princeton was indicated by H. G.
Murray '93. the indefatigable Secretary of the
Committee, in his report of February-, 1907.
Of the 6.838 kno«Ti living alumni since the
Class of 1870, 5,446 were in the classes rais-
ing money for class funds. Twenty of the
thirty-seven classes from 1870 to 1906, inclu-
sive, were raising funds for the University.

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Exclusive of these alumni, he had 372 an-
nual subscribers on his books who were con-
tributing $108,545.

Mr. Murray made his final report for the four
and a half years' life of the Committee of
Fifty in April. 1909. The Graduate Council
plan had been approved in April, 1908 and
thus the Committee of Fifty went out of ex-
istence. In the report, Mr. MuiTay stated
that the most valuable work of the Commit-
tee of Fifty had been to awaken the interest
of the alumni in the need of the University,
to induce classes to give larger memorial
funds than formerly, to collect the payments
more promptly, to interest individuals in
Princeton to secure bequests for the Univer-
sity, and to enlist intelligent enthusiasm
among the friends of the University. The
Committee had collected for the University
$4,079,693 of which $1,012,248 was for en-
dowment.

Another event of particular significance
in the field of fund raising during the pre-
war period was the campaign, organized
by the alumni of the University of Michi-
gan in 1914-15, for $1,000,000 for a new
Student Union Building. This was prob-
ably the most highly organized alumni
campaign to raise funds up to that time
and was tremendously successful. Alumni
committees were appointed throughout the
country and every alumnus was given an
opportunity to contribute. This campaign
has served ever since as a model and an
inspiration for many campaigns for stu-
dent unions and stadia.

Other organized alumni efforts to raise
funds for colleges and universities during
the pre-war period might be cited, but
these experiences are significant. Several
other colleges started effective funds prior
to the War, among them Smith College
and Union College in 1912, Brown Uni-
versity, Amherst, and Wesleyan University
in 1914, and the University of North Car-
olina in 1915.

At the close of the World War practi-
cally all colleges and universities faced
serious financial problems, due to the eco-
nomic changes resulting from the War; in
fact many colleges and universities faced
disaster. The period from 1919 on was
the era of the intensive campaign for per-
manent endowment. The times were ideal
for these drives, first because the need for
funds was imperative: second, the country
was in a condition of unprecedented pros-
perity: third, the American people were
still in the habit and spirit of giving to

worthwhile causes; and fourth, a highly
developed technique had been evolved for
nation-wide intensive campaigns as a result
of the war service drives.

Those colleges and universities which
had had annual alumni funds in existence
for a number of years before their inten-
sive campaigns were launched were very
fortunate. Their alumni had already
formed the habit of giving and had also
had some experience in fund raising.

These campaigns were organized largely
through the efforts of alumni, with the co-
operation of the college presidents and
trustees. In a number of institutions, the
services of the so-called professional fund
raising firms were employed to direct the
organization.

Many of these campaigns were highly
successful; some were moderately success-
ful; some were flat failures. In many
cases conditional gifts were made by the
foundations which furnished impetus to
the campaigns and in most cases assured
their success.

The John Price Jones Corporation made
a survey in 1926 of sixty-eight different
college campaigns which had been con-
ducted subsequent to 1919. These cam-
paigns resulted in securing $149,391,142-
.38 from 491,893 givers. The total amount
given by alumni was $68,797,129.35 from
315,493 alumni, or 46.1 per cent of the
total amount raised. Of the total amount
given to the endowed colleges and univer-
sities since the intensive campaign period
from 1919 to 1926, an increasing percent-
age has been given by the alumni.

The professional fund raising organiza-
tions rendered a real service to the colleges
and universities in connection with their
major campaigns for capital funds. The
personnel of these organizations was made
up largely of men and women who had
had wide experience in the War service
drives, and they were gaining increased
experience from CcUnpaign to campaign.
These firms were in a position, therefore,
to approach the problem more scientifi-
cally and methodically than could most
alumni and university officers who had not
had previous campaign experience. How-
ever, after one and sometimes two inten-
sive campaigns for permanent endowment,
with the inspirational meetings, high
pressure, and high powered salesmanship,

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there was a reaction of feeling against the
so-called intensive campaign. The college
and university administrative officers and
the alumni officers again cast about for a
method of raising funds on a continuous
basis which would take care of the urgent
needs of their respective institutions and
which would meet with the approval of
the average alumnus.

The alumni fund movement then had a
rebirth. A few institutions like Cornell
had protected their alumni funds during
the endowment period. In some institu-
tions, however, the alumni funds had been
allowed to lapse. Up to 1919, the begin-
ning of the intensive campaign period,
there were probably not more than a dozen
or fifteen alumni funds in existence, where-
as tliere are probably at least a hundred in
operation at the present time with several
hundred institutions, including state col-
leges and universities, interested in found-
ing alumni funds.

Wliile the promotion of these alumni
funds has until now been carried on large-
ly under the direction of alumni associa-
tions or alumni offices, there is a very defi-
nite trend in colleges and universities to
set up special organizations with special
officers charged with the responsibility of
raising, not only the annual alumni funds,
but also funds for endowment, buildings,
other special projects, including the pro-
motion of bequest programs.

The one college which has successfully
resisted the so-called intensive campaign,
and which has pinned its faith entirely on
the alumni fund and the continuous efforts
of its president, trustees, and alumni in
providing for the needs of the college, is
Dartmouth. Their alumni fund has made
rapid strides since the war. It has for
many years averaged more than $100,000
annually in unrestricted funds. A visit to
Dartmouth and a study of the president's
reports indicate a rapid growth in build-
ings and in other material resources since
the war.

During the period of the so-called inten-
sive endowment campaigns conducted for
the privately endowed colleges and uni-
versities, many State universities were also
raising funds for stadia and student unions.
Many of these campaigns were very suc-
cessful, but the experience in those insti-

tutions indicated that one intensive cam-
paign was about all the alumni of an in-
stitution W'ould stand in a single decade.
Some State universities are now organiz-
ing alumni funds, to be used each year to
provide for important projects which will
improve the quality of the institution but
for which the State will not or cannot pro-
vide. Other State institutions are organiz-
ing alumni committees to raise funds for
special projects without creating alumni
funds at all. ■■" ''' *

Probably more has been done by the
alumni of Michigan for their Alma Mater
in a financial way than has been done by
the alumni of any other State university,
and this tangible expression of alumni in-
terest has had a real effect on the quality
of the institution and its work.

Dr. Webster Schultz Stover in his book
entitled Alumni Stimulation by the Ameri-
can College President says: "During the
second decade of the century, before ade-
quate buildings had been provided for the
College of Law, President Hutchins of the
University of Michigan could say forty
percent of the buildings and equipment of
the University had been donated by alumni
and friends."

Since Harvard was founded in 1636,
alumni and friends of colleges and uni-
versities have been encouraged by college
presidents to make gifts by bequests.
Every college campus bears eloquent testi-
mony to the fact that many gifts have been
made in this way. Up until recent years
the older colleges and universities have
benefitted most by this type of gifts.

For many years past these bequests have
resulted largely from the efforts of college
presidents, due to the appeals in tlreir an-
nual reports and the inspiring influence of
precedent and example. During the past
ten years, however, the colleges and uni-
versities have become interested in the or-
ganization of highly developed bequest
programs, with bequest committees scat-
tered throughout the country, and with
special articles and special booklets pre-
pared in connection with these programs.
In the years to come more money will
probably reach the treasurers of American
colleges from this source than from any
other.

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Sweet Briar College

Announcements

Under the Carnegie Corporation subven-
tion for the promotion of the Arts at Sweet
Briar College announced last Commence-
ment several changes and additions have
been made.

The Department of Art becomes the
Department of Art and Archaeoloev. Dr.
Florence Robinson is transferred to the
new department and Dr. Gertrude Malz
comes to take Dr. Robinson's place in the
Department of Greek and Latin. Dr. Rob-
inson will offer a new course so described :

History of Architecture

A brief survey of the history of
architecture from prehistoric times
to the present. The course aims to
give an understanding of the ele-
ments of architecture and an appre-
ciation of the buildings of man from
the standpoint of beauty and func-
tion. Lectures illustrated with slides
and photographs.

Three hours second semester. Credit
three hours.

There is no pre-requisite and the course
is open to freshmen and sophomores. Op-
portunities will be made for trips to Wash-
ington and elsewhere to study architectural
forms for such students as can go, and spe-
cial work will be arranged for those who
cannot.

Also under this grant Miss Eugenia
Litchfield, A. B. Vassar, student at the
Conservatoire Americaine at Fontainbleau
and at the Surette Summer School of Music
at Concord, Mass., will join the faculty of
the Department of Music. Miss Litchfield
plays the violin and the viola and will
direct the Ensemble.

Announcement is also made by President
Glass of the appointment of Mr. Percy
MacKaye, distinguished poet and drama-
tist, as a visiting professor for the coming
session. Mr. MacKaye will offer a course
in "Creative Aspects of the Drama" and
will act as advisor in dramatic productions
and the writing of plays and verse. In
addition he will carry on his own work,
some of which centers around American

folk-lore including traditional backgrounds

of Virginia.

Mr. MacKaye is notable for his many
plays, among which are Jeanne d'Arc pro-
duced by Sothern and Marlowe; Sappho
and Phaon, a tragedy, produced by Harri-
son Grey Fiske; The Scarecrow, produced
by Henry B. Harris, and Mater, produced
by Henry Miller. Perhaps no one else in
America has been so successful in the
masque as Mr. MacKaye, whose Caliban
was produced at the stadium of the College
of the City of New York and at the Har-
vard stadium; Sanctuary, a bird masque,
produced in 1913; the St. Louis civic
masque with 7,500 actors produced in
1914, and this year, Wakefield, the Wash-
ington Bi-Centennial masque at Washing-
ton, D. C. Mr. MacKaye has written many
poems outside the dramatic field, and has
Ijeen at work for several years on folk
ways, especially in the southern Appala-
chian mountains.

The activities of Mr. MacKaye also form
a part of plans for the development of the
arts being begun this year at the college.

Other additional members of the faculty
are as follows:

Miss Irene Huber — Instructor in Ger-
man. A. B. Barnard College; M. A. Bryn
Mawr College.

Miss Nora Staael — Instructor in Physi-
cal Education. B. S. Northern State Teach-
ers College, Aberdeen, S. D.; M. A. Colum-
bia University.

Miss Elizabeth Adams — Instructor in
Chemistry. B. S. Middlebury College; M.
A. Smith College.

Miss Helen Whetstone — Instructor in
Physical Education. Graduate Bouve-Bos-
ton School of Physical Education.

Miss Elisabeth F. Moller— Assistant
Professor in Psychology. A. B. Goucher;
A. M. Clark University; Ph. D. Cornell.
Miss Moller is taking the place of Dr.
Helen Mull who was unable to return to
Sweet Briar because of illness. Miss Mull,
however, anticipates returning to college
for the second semester.

Alumnae News

From the Office of the Registrar

Sweet Briar opened this year with an
enrollment of 443 students, of whom 261
were former students and 182 were new
students. In comparing these figures with
those for 1931-1932 we note that there is
a decrease from the 467 who were enrolled
a year ago, but that the proportion of old
students returning has increased from fifty-
four to sixty percent of the whole student-
body. This is an end toward which the
college has been bending many efforts and
the accomplishment of this gain in the
present year is very reassuring to those
interested in Sweet Briar. The slight de-
crease in total registration is due to several
factors, not the least of which is the general
depression. In view of economic condi-
tions the administration decided last spring
not to attempt to place students outside
dormitories as it did last year when stu-
dents were housed with Mrs. Wilmer Black-
well, Mrs. Jordan. Mrs. Ramage and in
Professor Worthington's. house. The in-
creased fees of one thousand dollars (an-
nounced in the spring of 1931) were effec-
tive for all new students entering this fall.
In order to counterbalance any adverse
effect of this increase on able applicants
the college had increased scholarship funds
and created in addition a student emer-
gency fund, which have assisted many de-
sirable students to enter this year.

Not included in the enrollment statistics
given above are four students who will
study abroad their junior year. Miss Delia
Ann Taylor sailed in the summer for Ger-
many where she will study at the University
of Munich in the Foreign Study Group of
the University of Delaware. Three other
juniors sailed in September for Scotland
where they will study at St. Andrews under

an arrangement consummated by President
Glass.

Of particular interest to alumnae is the
admission of three Sweet Briar "grand-
daughters": Adele Bowman, daughter of
Adele Kruse Bowman, ex-'14; Laura K.
Roulette, daughter of Annie Haynes Rou-
lette. Academy: and Elizabeth C. Whayne,
daughter of Bessie Carothers Whayne, ex-
'14."

Eight entering freshmen are sisters of
alumnae: Kathleen Donohue is the sister
of Abigail Donohue, ex-'34, Phoebe Jersch
is the sister of Wanda Jensch Harris, '26,
Esther O'Brian is the sister of Frances
O'Brian Hettrick, '31. Mary Lee Poindex-
ter is the sister of Jane Poindexter Steward,
ex-'28, Lucille Scott is the sister of Virginia
Scott, ex-'34, Jane Shelton is the sister of
Mary Shelton Clark, '29. Mary Gray Val-
entine is the sister of Elizabeth Lee Val-
entine Goodwyn, '29, and Martha Williams
is the sister of Elizabeth Williams, '30.

Sweet Briar has been proud of its rating
as a national college on the basis of the
wide representation of its student-body. In
this year when economies might have been
expected to affect expenditures for trans-
portation it is of interest to find that stu-
dents come from thirtv-four states. Canal
Zone, Cuba, Porto Rico, Germany and
China.

Five freshmen wo'i competitive scholar-
ships which carry tuition for the first year.
Two of these are from Virginia, one from
the District of Columbia, one from Mary-
land, and one from Pennsylvania. The
college wishes to stimulate interest in these
scholarships and will be glad to send de-
tailed information to any alumnae who
know of desirable applicants who might
be interested to compete.

Founders' Day

Founders' Day will fall this year on
Friday, October 28, which is one week later
than announced in the catalogue. Dr. Irv-
ing Maurer, President of Beloit College.
Beloit, Wisconsin, will give the Founders'
Dav address.

It is expected that Sir James C. Irvine,
Principal and Vice-Chancelor of St. An-
drews LTniversity, St. Andrews, Scotland,
will visit Sweet Briar at this time.

Sweet Briar College

From the Athletic Department

The Virginia North Carolina Field
Hockey Association, which is composed of
Women's Colleges who play hockey in this
section, will meet at Sweet Briar for their
annual Rormd Robin Tournament on No-
vember 11 and 12. Between one hundred
and one hundred and fifty players will take
part. Umpires for this section will be
rated at this time and the annual business
meeting of the Association will also be
held then. William and Mary and Harri-
sonburg have entertained the Association
in the last two years.

The hockey schedule is in the making
and will probably include the usual games
with Westhampton and William and Mary.

Two new tennis courts, along Sunset
Road beyond the gymnasium, have been
completed.

Attempts are being made to organize a

dance ensemble for those students who wish
to do more than the required class work
and Miss Staael and Bonnie Wood, head
of dancing, are at work on this program.

Fifty freshmen have played hockey be-
fore so that their first team should be more
than promising. Except for last year's
seniors, most of the varsity h'-ckey team
has returned.

Amherst County Fair will be held on
October 6 and will, this year, be an open
show. Many outside exhibitors are ex-
pected to enter and only two classes are
exclusive for Sweet Briar. They are the
Horsemanship Class and the Ride to
Jericho. The cup for the former is given
by the Peoples National Bank of Lynch-
burg.

A larger number have elected to play
La Crosse this year than ever before.

A College Education — What
Is It?

"To be at home in all lands and ages;
to count nature a familiar acquaintance
and art an intimate friend; to gain a
standard for the appreciation of other
men's work and the criticism of your own;
to carry the keys of the world's library in
your pocket, and feel its resources behind
you in whatever you undertake; to make
hosts of friends among the men of your
own age who are to be leaders in all walks
of life; to lose yourself in generous en-
thusiasms and co-operate with others for
common ends — this is the offer of the col-
lege for the best four vears of your life."
—William DeWitt Hyde.

News of Lectures
Concerts

and

The first concert of the season was given
on Friday evening, September 30, by the
Boston Sinfonietta, in the Chapel. Seven-
teen men from the Boston Sjonphony Or-
chestra were in the group which was con-
ducted by Arthur Fiedler.

A lecture, by Mr. David Lawrence, Edi-
tor of the United States Daily, will be
given early in November. It is anticipated
that during Mr. Lawrence's stay on the
campus he will speak, informally, with the
Sweet Briar News staff.

On November 11 Tsuya Matsuki will
give a piano recital in the Chapel.

Martha Graham, the dancer, will be the
feature of the Thanksgiving Entertainment.

Class Presidents

Class voting has resulted in the election
of the following presidents: Langhorne
Watts, Senior Class; Julia Daugherty,
Junior Class; Eleanor Elliott, Sophomore
Class. Election of president for the Fresh-
man Class will not be held until November
first.

Alumnae News

Mount Saint Angelo — A Chronicle

By Natalie Manson Dew

HILL and a half from the College
is Mount Saint Angelo, its dark
pointed fir and spruce, the massed
green of its elm and maple and horse-
chestnut drawn clear against the sky.
Elijah Fletcher's daughter, Elisabetli, Daisy
Williams' "Aunt Lillybell", inherited this
part of his q;reat estate and when she mar-
ried Mr. Mosby from Lynchburg came
across the fields from Sweet Briar House
to live here. She brought with her some
of the elegant Fletcher furniture and china
and silver but there was only the overseer's
house for her to put them in, with slave
cabins close by. The young couple started
their first home in a long, low dingy build-
ing covered with vines; but from their hill
top on three sides of the horizon stretched
a glorious view of the Blue Ridge, with
distant etherial peaks and near green foot-
hills. They loved the place and dreamed
of building something some day that would
be beautiful and stately and would be
called Hamlet Hall.

They were planning for this when they
travelled in Europe and when they were
driven home by the Franco-Prussian war
they began to build. By this time the
English beauties of Hamlet Hall had faded
and they had fallen in love with Italian
villas, so soon after 1870 Mount Saint
Angelo faced the old stage coach road
which runs by Cool Well and across the
bridge over the railroad track. It was
rather large, rather dramatic, built of brick
painted gray, with one tall tower. Beneath
this there was a vestibule with an arched
entrance inscribed in Latin, with old Eng-
lish lettering — "Thou shalt keep him in
perfect peace whose mind is stayed on
Thee".

On the lawn many of us have counted
seventy different varieties of trees and
shrubs — a glory of essentially Southern
things, magnolias, pink dogwood, pink
horse chestnut, crepe myrtle — besides the
deodar, the cedar of Lebanon, dead these
several years but clothed in a mantle of
vines, the huge copper beech with its trunk

Original Mount .Saint Angt-lo

like an elephant's hide, the spruce that
towers above it with branches sweeping the
ground, mahonias, quantities of rare ever-
greens, tree box and dwarf box. Mrs.
Mosby said some of them were planted
before the Civil War. Certainly the cop-
per beech was here in the time of the first
Mount Saint Angelo. Perhaps the Ceres
that stands so calmly on her mound be-
tween the four magnificent Irish yews,
dates from this period. Perhaps Mrs.
Mosby intended to replace her whitened
iron with a marble goddess. Many things
that she wanted to do had to go undone
because there was not enough money. Even
the plastering was still unfinished when she
died leaving a vague will bestowing her
home on the Catholic Sisters of Lynchburg
for a school.

There was no money to run the school
and there was no such legal organization
as the Catholic Sisters of Lynchburg, so
Mount Saint Angelo reverted to her broth-

Sweet Briar College

Irish Yews at Mount San Angelo

Courtesy Mr, Reavis

er. Only negroes lived on the place and
a negro man, Patrick Galvin, was in charge.
Once in two or three weeks Dr. Fletcher
would ride up from Tusculum to give or-
ders. On one of these trips he died, top-
pling over on a bed in the "big house".

The estate went to Mrs. Williams, our
"Miss Indie", and at her death Mrs. Mary
Page Newman received a life interest.

Mrs. Newman came of distinguished an-
cestry, being the granddaughter of Parson
Page, who was the grandson of Governor
Nelson of ^ orktown, of Revolutionary
fame. A tragic tale is told of her — a love
stoi-y of other days and other ideals. For
years her family refused to give their con-
sent to her marrying a lover who had been
divorced. When they realized at length
that there was no happiness for her without
him the wedding day was named, the house
built and furnished to the last pin stuck
into the last pincushion — and the bride-
groom died. Much later Miss Page met
Dr. Newinan and became his second wife.

Thev were living at Mount Saint Angelo
when plans were being made for the Col-
lege and a new station was needed which
would be nearer than Cool Well. The
Board of Trustees decided on the place

where the gate opens from the field to the
railroad track, on the way to the Barretts.
The road was to run straight across and
go in front of the buildings. Mrs. New-
man was horrified at the idea of building
a station on her property. They then of-
fered ten thousand dollars for her life in-
terest. She refused so they built the pres-
ent station, with the road coming through
the woods and in just one year Mrs. New-
man died and Mount Saint Angelo was
added to the College holdings.

Dr. J. :\[. :\lcBryde. President of V. P. I.,
was Chairman of the Executive Committee
of the Board of Directors. Everyone hoped
that he was going to resign from \'. P. I.,
which he had built up into a big and suc-
cessful college, and become the first presi-
dent of Sweet Briar. At his request Mount
Saint Angelo was remodelled to be used as
the President's House. It became a very
large and imposing red brick structure,
with a porch running around two sides and
colonial pillars reaching to the roof. Then
Dr. McBryde resigned from the Executive
Coimnittee. The College opened with its
thirty-six pioneers and a much beloved
woman president. Dr. Mary K. Benedict,
and Mount Saint Angelo remained empty.
In those first days when Mrs. Williams'

Alumnae News

Courtesy Mr. Reavis

Boxwood at Mount San Angelo

Another View of Yews at Moimt San Ano;elo

Courtesy Mr. Reavis

Sweet Briar College

coach, lined with pink brocaded satin, still
stood in the barn; when it was an all day
trip to Lynchburg and an all afternoon trip
to Amherst; it was a pleasant thing to walk
across the Cow Hill to explore the beautiful
grounds around the lonely house.

Then in May, 1909, an Englishman, Dr.
George E. Walker, moved up with his
family from Florida and almost at once
Mount Saint Angelo became the social
centre of Sweet Briar. There was an At
Home once a week for girls, once a week
for faculty. Everybody was sometimes
asked for dinner. Thanksgiving was the
big event, with a huge bonfire laid on the
hillside and some lucky girl invited to light
it — a high honor like christening a vessel.
When the flames came leaping up Dr.
Walker, playing his flute, would lead the
long line of marchers. Then to the same
music they all took hands and circled the
fire around and around. There would be
games in the blazing light and the flicker-
ing shadows, then cocoa and cakes and
tarts and ghost stories before the entire
college walked home together, singing
across the fields. Two daughters of the
house were married in Ascension Church

in Amherst, the family taking communion
afterwards with the bride and groom in the
English fashion. There were receptions in
the big parlors and glorious iced wedding
cakes in the dining-room. A funeral party
of devoted friends, all on foot, followed
Dr. Walker's body when it was carried
across the beautiful lawn to its burial in
the small private graveyard. The family
moved to a smaller place on the other side
of the road to Lynchburg and Mr. Albert
Barrow became the new owner.

Mr. Barrow was at the head of a chain
of overall factories and his recreation was
big game hunting. He made a lake and
stocked it with fish and bought up hundreds
of acres of land for a game preserve.
Wliat had been the Walker's Music Room
became a den with bear skins on the floor,
heads of deer and mountain sheep on the
walls, a stuffed eagle, a tremendous fish.
Mrs. Barrow planted a sunken garden
edged with peonies and iris, with a pool
and water lilies. The place was gay with
roses. There were beds where columbines
and gladioli and chrysanthemums followed
each other in seasonal splendor. The
lawn was edged with box and everything

Courtesy Mr. Reavis

Copper Beech at Mount San Angelo

Alumnae News

Courtesy Mr. Reavis

Boxwood and Sunken Garden at Mount San Angelo

The Lake at Mount San Anaelo — Blue Ridse Mountains in Distance

Sweet Briar College

was pruned and trimmed and beautified.
Fences looped across the hillside. Then
Mr. Barrow's business called him to the
West and once more the place was on the
market.

Early last Summer a newspaper man, a
cosmopolitan Missourian married to an
artist who had already made one beautiful
home at Saint Cloud, bought the estate.
On the gate a bronze marker displays the

name, Mount San Angelo, and the owner,
H. S. Reavis. Through the trees and the
pink crepe myrtle there are glimpses of a
white mansion lovelier than anything that
has gone before but lineally descended
from the gray house with the one tall
tower. A hill and a half from the College
Sweet Briar airls returnina; for 1932-1933
have waiting for them a new thrill, a new
surprise, a white mansion.

■ Courtesy Mr, Reavis

Mount San Angelo — Home of Mr. and Mrs. Holland S. Reavis

Alumnae News

The Modern Novel

By Carl Y. Connor

(Editor's Note — Part of a recent lecture by Dr. Connor, head of the English Department, to
the Woman's Club of Lynchburg.)

IN discussing the modem novel, one is
immediately led to inquire what is
"modern"? Certainly for my purposes
I should rather not say "contemporary"
for some of the features of the modern
novel have been in existence long before
this century began. In vigour of thought
and freedom from convention several
books might be regarded as outposts of
the moderns. For instance, Thomas
Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
(1890), is modern in its protest against
a lover himself not guiltless who turns
against his wife because on their wedding
night she confesses her past. In "Esther
Waters" (1894), George Moore violated
convention by his story of the love affairs
of a servant girl in surroundings of life
below stairs. Samuel Butler's "Way of All
Flesh" published in 1903 but written long
before, is full of jibes at the inconsisten-
cies of current child-rearing, church-going,
education, and social service by a writer
who referred to his "kind but dishonest
parents," who is said to have produced
"not an exposition but an exposure of
humanity" and who has been called "the
Diogenes of the Victorians." In 1913 with
the publication of "Sons and Lovers" by
D. H. Lawrence appeared one of the first
"psychological" novels. Readers seldom
fail to be impressed in this story by the
searching sincerity of the author as he
tells the autobiographical narrative of the
miner's son who turned from his brutal
uneducated father to the companionship
of his mother and who finds there his am-
bition so fostered and his love kindled that
his relationship with other women is ac-
tually blighted even after she has died.
And finally with the appearance in 1915
of Dorothy Richardson's "Pointed Roofs,"
written in a style of introspective impres-
sionism we have one of the earliest of the
"stream of consciousness" school.

Since the publication of these books
from 1890 to 1915, the modernism of the
modern novel has gained impetus to a

surprising degree. No stone has been left
unturned by the authors to send scurrying
into the light, the innermost thoughts and
feelings of human beings who are often as
not hypocondriac, diseased or perverted.
And no trick has been left untried to make
the English language adequately expressive
of queer characters and twilight moods. In
the Morse code of modern prose there are
fewer dots than dashes — dashes which im-
ply all sorts of interruptions, disconnec-
tions, sudden shifts to other ideas, to con-
trasting moods and to incongruous places.
I confess to being quite nonplussed some-
times in the middle of one of these newer
pages. There I stand bewildered by the
last leap, deserted by syntax, bereft of
punctuation, verbless and alone.

But, you say, these are only the vagaries
of literature; thought and expression,
whether or not they flow in the stream of
consciousness continue unimpeded by or-
dinary fads. Perhaps. But one can never
be sure in a world which tears down its
skyscrapers every twenty-live years, sends
the music of Schoenberg by radio half way
round the world, and declares the British
Empire to be tottering to its fall. In such
a world one casts a lingering glance back-
ward at the honest craftsmanship of Thack-
ery and the clear solidity of Matthew Ar-
nold's prose.

It is obvious therefore that today we live
in a transitional period. In music there
are experimenters but no masters. Can you
think of a single contemporary artist, paint-
ing with the authority of a Gainsborough?
In letters this is also true, though the pres-
ence of O'Neill in America and Shaw in
England helps to redeem the drama from
mediocrity. At best therefore, we can trace
only tendencies and draw a long bow in
forecasting what may be the novel of the
future.

The first of a half dozen tendencies
which I have in mind, is the trend from
the objective to the subjective. I need only
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and Katharine Mansfield to make this clear.
In him you have a large group of charac-
ters viewed from the outside in their rela-
tionship to the life and customs of Napo-
leonic England. In her you have the inner
drama which takes place in a child prepar-
ing for so seemingly simple an event as an
English garden party. This tendency is
also well illustrated in the restricted time,
space and characters of Swinnerton's "Noc-
turne."

A second tendency exemplified in George
Eliot and Rosamond Lehman is from the
conclusive to the inconclusive. The world
of Silas Marner is an ordered one whatever
departures its characters may make from
the norm and in it poetic justice is meted
out at the end. Most modern novels at-
tempt no solution to the riddle of life.
Miss Lehman, for instance, gave us a
"Dusty Answer." We go back to Thomas
Hardy as a pre-war preacher of this liter-
ary agnosticism and since then the charac-
ters of Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald,
Aldous Huxley, and many others have been
without a god, by which I mean not so
much Deity as a guiding principle in life
or a consciousness that whatever the per-
sonal creed, life is not unordered.

In keeping with such a tendency is a
third, from the idealistic to the scientific
so glaringly illustrated in the modern ten-
dencies in biography. In the past the pro-
phets, priests and kings grew greater in
books. Now Washington, Lincoln, Queen
Victoria, Elizabeth, Dickens, have all had
turned upon them the search light of the
modern biographer who fortified as he is
with great facilities for research, with few
inhibitions, a little psychology and a pub-
lic interested in Actionized biography, pre-
sents a formidable figure to those great
ones who even before their deaths must see
themselves in Downing Street Mirrors or
be thrust perforce upon a Washington
Merry-Go-Round.

The fourth tendency is to me one of the
most stimulating features of modern litera-
ture, the trend from the tried to the untried.
Many writers have freshness in their day
but if one contrasts the work of Scott with
that of James Joyce, Stella Benson, or Vir-
ginia Woolf one is struck by the daring of
some of these modern writers. Mr. Joyce's
enormous "Ulysses" is, as you know, the
account of a single twenty-four hours in

the life of Stephen Dedalus, and its last
chapter, guiltless of punctuation, purports
to be the thoughts of the vigorous Marion
Bloom written in that unselective manner
which we now characterize as the "stream
of consciousness," and which strives to be
a sort of stenographic discourse of Marion
with herself. In "Mrs. Dalloway," Vir-
ginia Woolf gives us even less than twenty-
four hours with her heroine but in that
time we have penetrated with extraordinary
insight into the life and mind of a London
hostess. Meeting her buying flowers in a
London shop, we follow her home, meet
her husband and her friends, flit discon-
certingly to a park bench to observe one
Septimus Smith, a demented individual
seen through the mind of his Italian wife,
and are presently back again to be present
at Mrs. Dalloway 's evening party. This is
not so unusual in plot, though its brevity
is modern, as in manner. "Life" for Mrs.
Woolf is "a luminous halo, a semi-trans-
parent envelope surrounding us from the
beginning of consciousness to the end."
To convey but not destroy that luminosity
is her task. In her you see how a writer
given a flexible medium can travel far and
rapidly into those fields of consciousness
hitherto remote in literature, but probably
more significant than we have ever thought.
The fifth tendency is one that is so ob-
vious that it cannot be ignored — from the
asexual to the sexual. Now it needed no
Freud to point out to us the importance of
sex in life. The writers have been con-
scious of this for so long that I protest
that they have harped upon the theme to
the point of monotony. Remove the rela-
tionship of the sexes from the literature of
any period and what is left? Beowulf re-
mains intact, but Chaucer suffers greatly,
Spenser exists in remnants, and Shakes-
peare is no more. In the 18th century it
underlay novel and drama and the 19th
century was as sex-conscious as any other
though it would not admit it. It has re-
mained for the 20tli century, however, to
perpetrate a reaction from the Victorian
reticence so ably characterized by a later
writer as the "obscene hush" which then
prevailed. Of course it is natural that in
a period during and following the war,
traditional restraint should break down,
and that this should be reflected in its liter-
ature. But even that would not seem to

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account for the pre-occupation with sex
noticeable in writers like James Joyce,
D. H. Lawrence, Sherwood Anderson, and
William Faulkner.

The sixth and last tendency is that from
limited races and social strata to a litera-
ture which is polyglot. It includes the
negro, the natives of the South Seas, the
racketeer, the small town loafer, tlie Rus-
sian refugee or the patients in a mountain
sanatorium or of a fashionable physician
in Paris. The negro has ranged from du
Bose Heywood's "Porgy" in Charleston,
to Carl Van Vechten's Harlem "Nigger
Heaven." The realistic treatment of Jo-
seph Howe's earl)r "Sketches of a Country
Town" has been carried on to Sherwood
Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio." Martha
Ostenso's "Wild Geese" and Rolvaag's
"Giants in the Earth" have portrayed life
on western prairies. And of the many
novels which have described city life, one
of the most notable is John Dos Passes'
"Manhattan Transfer."

Summing up these tendencies, therefore,
I should say that the modern novel has
moved in the direction of a detailed, in-
trospective, scientific treatment of character
rather than of situation. These characters
are wide in range and frequently unusual
in nature, and require skilled observation,
their very unusualness placing additional
obligations on the writers if they are to
have a universality of appeal. This has
resulted in an awareness and intensity of
interest by modern v^rriters. They write
trickily, perhaps, but not perfunctorily and
their styles are stimulating exercises in the
experimental. Wliere they lose most, per-
haps, is in their failing to express any
philosophy of life or to supply not only
interest but inspiration to the great body
of readers who look to literature not mere-
ly as a means of escape but as an inspira-
tion to living.

And now I am moved to ask certain
questions. What will the readers of the
21st century say about our novels? Which
will they read as the best commentary oh
modern men, women, and scenes? The
answer need not necessarily be a list of
books great in their own right as well as
expressive of their times, though often as
in the case of Dickens, Austen and Thack-
ery, this is true.

An even better example is Somerset
Maugham's "Of Human Bondage." Since
its appearance in 1915 this novel has grown
slowly but surely in popularity. With
more vividness than Butler, Maugham car-
ries his reader through the life of his club-
footed hero. There are a hundred speak-
ing characters in this book. One is initi-
ated into life in a village rectory, a German
pension, the ateliers of Paris, the long
wards of an English hospital and the social
side of a London department store. And
it treats of art, medicine, philosophy, re-
ligion, labor and money in a way as stimu-
lating today as when it first appeared.

Similarly, future readers with an eye to
setting as well as plot, will turn to "The
Old Wives' Tale" of Arnold Bennet. There
the industrial England of the Five Towns
and, with less emphasis, Paris of the Siege,
are preserved eternally in the life-stories
of two sisters, Constance and Sophia, the
dissimilar daughters of John Baynes, pro-
prietor of the best draper's establishment
in Bursley's St. Luke's Square. During the
sweeping progress of the story, which is
the most realistic jumble of momentous and
irrelevant happenings, Constance marries
her father's head clerk and succeeds her
mother as housekeeper in the rooms above
the store. The spirited Sophia meanwhile
has run away with a traveling salesman
from whom she separates in Paris but there
establishes a successful pension returning
in later life to share with her sister the
quarters in which they grew up as girls.
Yet the book is far more than a panorama
of two lives, it is a record in changing
modes of dress, transportation, business
methods, and industrial conditions set down
with that unflagging interest in the details
of human existence characteristic of the
author of "Imperial Palace."

Next, among English writers likely to
survive as writers of sociological interest,
one must mention tlie creator of the For-
syte Saga, John Galsworthy. To be sure
he may go the way of the once popular
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, but I am inclined
to think that there is a permanence to tlie
characters of Soames Forsyte and Aimette
and Fleur and that life in the town and
country houses of that family is very close-
ly identified with that of tlie actual England
of the early nineteen hundreds.

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One novel which I think may last is
Samuel Butler's "Way of All Flesh." It
is the story of a boy raised over-severely
by well-meaning parents, who though he is
befriended by a wealthy and enlightened
aunt, is permanently embittered by his ex-
periences. It is not the plot but the re-
marks of the cool ironic author on the
current mental stupor in religion, educa-
tion, science and domestic life which makes
this novel a keen though biased critique of
its times.

I am tempted to include Joseph Conrad
and H. G. Wells as modern novelists who
will be read by future generations inter-
ested in our affairs, but Conrad will survive
as the artist rather than as the sociologist,
and stimulating as Wells has been to his
own time, his haste and his very timeliness
may militate against him as a novelist like-
ly to withstand the years. Of Wells it has
been wittily remarked that like Rosetti's
"Blessed Damozel" he leans from heaven's
golden bar dispensing sociological cock-
tails to a thirsty universe. And it is true
that there is about his writing, to be sure,
something of the temporary stimulus of
the cocktail.

And what shall we say of America?
Who is the real American in fiction —
Babbit or Ethan Frome, Antonia or Sister
Carrie, Alice Adams or the heroine of
"Barren Ground"?

I suppose that Theodore Dreiser in his
"American Tragedy" has attempted the
most thorough-going treatment of a section
of the American scene. Its industrialism,
its class distinctions, its administration of
law are there earnestly set down but with
such abiuidant detail and such unselective
heaviness of manner that as a work of art
it falls short of standards of permanence.

Sinclair Lewis, on the other hand, has
written with the jaundiced eye of a con-
genital satirist. Where Mr. Dreiser has
been imiformly dull, Mr. Lewis has been
consistently perverse. We were a little dis-
turbed at the European award of the Nobel
prize to the author of "Main Street," lest
Europe think we were all like that. The
reason for our discomfort is apparent. We
are enough like that to give Mr. Lewis good
grounds for writing as he does and he more
than any other living American novelist
has defined Americanism albeit in negative
and none too complimentary terms.

And now I draw toward the conclusion
of tliis glancing view of modern fiction by
asking the question: "vVnd what of the un-
published and perhaps unwritten novels of
the future?"

We waited for years for Bernard Shaw
to leave off satiric persiflage long enough
to write a play worthy of his dramatic
sense, his intellect, especially his imagi-
nation. The result was "Saint Joan." We
have waited in vain for James Branch
Cabell to escape from the rarified though
delightful atmosphere of Poictesme where
his hypnotic intellect and literary leger-
demain has cast a spell over himself and
us. Under that spell we have been bliss-
fully imaginuig that life, seen from our
sophisticated heights, is given over to an
amused contemplation of a foolish, over-
romantic hmnanity and to the agile avoid-
ance of the heavy-footed Mr. Sumners.
But we have waited for Mr. Cabell thus
far, in vain.

In England it seems unlikely that Mr.
Galsworthy will write anjiiing better than
his "Forsyte Saga," that Hugh Walpole
will improve on "The Green Mirror," or
that Somerset Maugham's "Of Human
Bondage" is not his masterpiece. I am
reluctant to concede that the genius of
Aldous Huxley is apparently to be forever
displayed in the tangled skein of his
"Crome Yellow" and that his clever fingers
running over the keys of "Point Counter-
point" result only in a macabre toccata
on human life with Galuppi's "dust and
ashes" theme.

In this country, it begins to look as if
Sherwood Anderson has made his contri-
butions to American literature in "Wines-
burg, Ohio" and "Many Marriages."
Theodore Dreiser cannot now hope to rid
himself of that essential ugliness which
makes his books ponderous, unsubtle and
unsublime. Among women writers con-
tinuing along established lines are Doro-
thy Canfield Fisher, Ellen Glasa;ow, Kath-
leen Norris, Mrs. Sedgivick, Edith Wharton
and Gertrude Adierton. But in "Death
Comes For the Archbishop" Willa Gather
produced something out of the ordinary,
and we await in her more than in any
other American woman novelist further
manifestations of the realism, detachment,

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Conning the Campaign

By Perry Laukhuff
Instructor in Government

ONCE again the country is in the
midst of a presidential campaign.
Xo intelligent person in a democ-
racy can afford to remain aloof from such
a campaign. That being so, there need be
no excuses made for the appearance of
this article in a publication of this sort.
It is another welcome and encouraging
indication of the new and increasing in-
terest being taken bv college-trained peo-
ple — who we assume are sijTionomously
intelligent people — in public affairs. It is
now even more than usually appropriate,
one might go so far as to say it is impera-
tive, that thoughtful citizens follow closely
the course of events political, for no other
campaign in twelve years has so vividly
revealed tlie gravity of the national and
world situation. Indeed the writer is one
of those who, taking a broad view, feel that
we are now in the midst of a prolonged
period of crisis in world history, a crisis
which, if not promptly and vigorously met
bv the best efforts of the human intellect,
will inevitablv resolve itself into disaster.
It is a crisis in human organization: and
therefore in government, which is the great-
est human organization. Need more be
said to indicate the transcendent import-
ance of paying the closest attention to this
presidential campaign and the issues it de-
velops? Or it may be tliat tlie significant
thing will be a striking lack of issues, with
a resultant national conviction of the neces-
sit}^ of a political reorganization.

Very likely this article ^vill answer few
of the questions of deeper significance:
certainly it will not answer all questions
which must be milling around in the minds
of its readers. From the nature of things
it can be little more than an impartial sur-
vey of events. The editor, in requesting
the writer to review the campaign, enjoined
strict non-partisanship and thereby set a
task which would probably make even
\\ alter Lippman or Frank Kent less eager
to write his daily colunm. For the spice
of political comment lies in those flashes
of critical partisanship which so humanly

illumine such discussions. Nevertlieless. I
shall do my best. Perhaps I shall be able
to conceal my real feelings as successfully
as in my classes, where the Republicans
believe me to be firmly attached to the
G. 0. P., the Democrats are certain I am
a pure Jeffersonian and the few Socialists
rejoice in my Marxian outlook. (There
are no Communists to call me "Com-
rade" ! )

The campaign opened with the usual
June conventions of the two major parties
— no one has ever satisfactorily explained
why conventions must be held more than
four months before election day. The
Socialist convention was held earlier and
that of the League lor Independent Politi-
cal Action later, but they do not have much
to do widi opening the Campaign. In these
da3-s of the radio, die conventions are open
to everyone; so that little need be said
about them. In brief, as circuses they were
as worthwhile as ever: as Americanisms as
amazing; to foreigners as ever; as demo-
cratic institutions and political bodies mak-
ing great decisions as non-existant and dis-
couraging to the political scientist as ever
and as part of our political life as accept-
able to the people as usual: they will re-
assemble four years hence!

The Republican convention was the more
uninteresting of the two, because the more
cut-and-dried. Naturally this was so. The
candidate had to be Mr. Hoover — any otlier
choice would have been a confession of
failure and contrary to all precedent. The
platform similarly was made to fit the
candidate and except for the unsuccessful
flare-up against the plank on the liquor
question was accepted in docile fashion by
the delegates. The first of several prece-
dent-breaking events of this political sea-
son was the renomination of Mr. Curtis.
Vice-Presidents seldom or never are chosen
to run a second time.

The Democrats, meeting two weeks later,
confirmed most advance predictions by
choosing Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor
of New York, as their nominee. What

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might have been a long deadlock was re-
solved into an overwhelming victory by
Mr. McAdoo's accession to the New York-
er's camp and the inevitable anti-climax
was Mr. Garner's choice as the Vice-Presi-
dential nominee. Mr. Roosevelt's victory,
while expected, was received by the Con-
vention and the country with a noticeable
lack of enthusiasm; the result of which is
a campaign in sharp contrast to that of
1928 when the almost frenzied devotion of
Mr. Smith's admirers lent certain definite
characteristics to tlie battle.

The Democratic convention, being a
gathering of the "outs" with no dominating
leadership, was naturally less well-disci-
plined, and less inclined to follow pre-
arranged plans. Nevertheless, more har-
mony prevailed than is usual in such gath-
erings. Two more precedents were broken.
A short, very short, platform was adopted,
and it is heartily to be hoped that the cus-
tom thus happily begun may be continued
for the benefit of a long-suffering people.
The document omits most of the usual
carping criticism and self-gratulation, and
presents the party's position in short, con-
cise, for the most part easily understood
planks. It is a courageous step in the
direction of platforms which will express
rather than conceal issues and attitudes.
The second sensible departure from tradi-
tion was Mr. Roosevelt's appearance at the
Stadium to accept the nomination. Why
waste time and money on expensive "noti-
fication" ceremonies weeks after the event?

Despite the early start which was thus
given to the Campaign, its subsequent
course has been about like that of former
races. During the summer, our political
somnolence was scarcely disturbed despite
some exploratory foravs into New England
by the Democratic nominee, his speeches
at Sea Girt and Coliunbus and the Presi-
dent's acceptance speech in August. All
these were mere simmerings; the pot is
only now beginning to boil, with Governor
Roosevelt's western tour and President
Hoover's approaching speaking campaign.

What of the issues which have been de-
veloped thus far? It seems to many ob-
servers that they are painfully few. I say
painfully, because of all times in our his-
tory when an election should be fought out
on clear-cut specific points of difference,
when definite choices between this road or

that should be given to the people, this
would seem to be the most appropriate.
Yet almost the only real choice before the
electorate is that of keeping the "ins" or
putting in the '"outs". It is the most un-
mistakable sign of the artificiality and de-
cadence of our present political line-up
and division. The sooner that fact sinks
home generally to the minds of the masses
of cur people the better it will be.

In this connection we can first of all
dispose of the Socialists. As usual they
are a negligible quantity as far as having
any chance of success goes. Their candi-
date is again Mr. Norman Thomas, whom
some alumnae will doubtless remember
from his visit to Sweet Briar two years ago.
He is a former minister and editor, and is
at present the Director of the League for
Industrial Democracy. He is not a novice
at the "great game" of politics, having
previously aspired to the Presidency, the
Governorship of New York, Congress, and
the Mayorship of New York City — always
unsuccessfully.

Without going into details, which space
forbids, we may say that the Socialist pro-
gram differs fundamentally from that of
the two major parties. It believes a new
political alignment of Conservatives and
Socialists is needed, and its general cry is
for industrial reorganization in the direc-
tion of government operation of the major
public utilities and government supervised
planning for all the rest of industry. Such
a step would, it claims, go far to meet
the present depression and prevent future
violent business fluctuations. In the last
election, the Socialists received only some
200,000 votes. There are indications that
its vote will be much larger this year and
its hope is that several million ballots will
come its way. It is my belief that the
concatenation of events is such that we
shall have to reckon more seriously with
the Socialists after this election than ever
before — either as Socialists or as the nu-
cleus of a new liberal party.

Certain issues, real and imaginary, have
developed in the course of the fight between
the old parties. In the foreign field there
are practically no differences. Neither
party favors the League of Nations, both
favor the World Court, neither favors the
cancellation of war debts. Mr. Hoover had
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policy in his acceptance speech; Mr. Roose-
velt has been largely silent on these mat-
ters. In other words no issues have been
joined.

Prohibition, that bugaboo of every po-
litical race for several decades, still rears
its head and in the popular mind is one of
the prime points of difference and discus-
sion. Fortunately it seems likely not to
obtain a position of overshadowing ' im-
portance. To the writer the fact that in
a time of unparalleled economic and social
distress, the battle over beer should assume
such prominence is a sign of a dangerous
weakness in American judgment. However
that may be, the Democrats stand for out-
right repeal of the loth Amendment and
immediate modification of the Volstead
Law, insofar as the latter is constitutionally
possible. The Republican Party stands
committed only to resubmission, while the
President advances to the point of urging
a change in the direction of State Control
with Federal Supervision.

The main issue, as it appears so far, and
as is natural and right, appears on the
question of responsibility and remedies for
our present distressful economic condition.
Fundamentally, it is clear, the major par-
ties take the same view — it is only at a few
specific points that any real clash is ap-
parent. President Hoover made much in
his acceptance speech of his continuing
belief in the validity of the individualistic
system. Mr. Roosevelt has several times
enunciated, more briefly, his own similar
belief in the necessity of the continuance
of individual initiative. Both, in other
words, are opposed to any marked increase
in state control, though in one instance —
the question of power production — the New
York Governor departs in the direction of
limited Federal ownership and operation
of a few power projects.

On the question of the tariff, the G. 0. P.
remains adamant. It will uphold its high
tariff policy at all costs. The Democrats
have reverted mildly to their traditional
stand and want a "competitive tariff for
revenue". The persistence of their attacks
on tlie Hawley-Smoot Tariff indicates that
the above phrase means a lower tariff;
how low has not yet been revealed.

It is rather difficult at this stage of events
to say more than the above. No amount

of conning of available material seems to
yield further issues. Mr. Roosevelt has
been quite verbal and has spoken on a
number of subjects. His promises have
so far been of a quite general nature and
tlie President has not yet made any reply,
even of a general nature. Issues, after all,
are the product of antagonistic views, and
one man cannot alone express or create
antagonistic views. Hence, I say, issues
have not yet been developed out of Roose-
velt's speeches on farm relief, on the rail-
roads, and on public utilities. My own
opinion, as an impartial observer, is that
no solid or broad issues will develop out
of these speeches. Considerations of space
simply forbid extended dissection and dis-
cussion of the Democratic stand on those
points but it appears that when all the ir-
relevant criticisms and generalities (which
seem inevitable in political speeches ) are
eliminated, the party's candidate takes a
position in favor of government aid and
encouragement for the suffering railways,
lower taxes for the farmer, and regulation
of power as a public utility — a position
somewhat more precise than but not ap-
parently very different from that of his
opponent, judging from past statements
and actions of the latter.

If the writer has possibly been unsatis-
factory on the issues, he will most certainly
be unsatisfactory on the outcome. Cam-
paign managers bandy claims about with
their usual shameless abandon. The race
seems any body's at present — referring to
Roosevelt and Hoover as any body.
The Vice-President perambulates uselessly
about the country while the Speaker belies
his title daily in an unexpected but wel-
come silence which reflects great credit on
the sagacity of party headquarters. As for
Maurer, the Socialist understudy, he seems
virtually as harmless as poor Throttlebot-
tom in the musical comedy, "Of Thee I
Sing".

Meanwhile newspaper polls are all the
rage and the Literary Digest moves pon-
derously into quadrennial action. On the
face of these early straws, the revolt
against the present regime seems great and
general. He would be a rash man, how-
ever, who would do more in mid-September

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Sweet Briar College

You and Your Government by Radio

Two series of broadcasts, Pre-Election
and Post-Election, are being present-
ed by the Committee on Civic Educa-
tion by Radio, of the National Advisory
Council on Radio in Education and the
American Political Science Association.
Mr. Levering Tyson, Director of the Na-
tional Advisory Council on Radio in Edu-
cation says: "I can assure you of the au-
thentic nature of the whole series. There
is no propaganda anywhere. No one will
attempt to plead causes, and no one has
any axe to grind. We are merely trying
to help lick the depression. The American
Political Science Association, as you un-
doubtedly know, is the foremost organiza-
tion of political scientists in the country.
The Council is entirely non-partisan, un-
biased and disinterested."

The broadcasts are scheduled for each
Tuesday evening, at eight o'clock Eastern
Standard Time, over the Blue Network of
the National Broadcasting Company.

The subiects for the Pre-Election Series,
GOVERNMENT IN A DEPRESSION, are
as follows:

October 4

WHAT CAN GOVEBNMENT DO TO PRE-
VENT AND BELIEVE UNEMPLOY-
MENT?

SENATOR ROBERT F. WAGNER, New Tork
DR. CHARLES A. BEARD, Historian

Octolier 11

HOW CAN GOVERNMENT AID FINANCE
AND BANKING?

PRES. JOHN T. MADDEN, Alexander Hamilton

Institute
PROF. WALTER F. DODD, Tale UniTersity

October 18

HOW CAN GOVERNMENT PROVIDE
GREATER SECURITY IN OUR ECO-
NOMIC SYSTEM?

PAUL MAZUR, Partner, Lehman Brothers, New Tork
PROF. A. W. MacMAHON, Columbia University

October 25

MECHANICS AND MANEUVERS OF

CAMPAIGNS
PROF. A. N. HOLCOMBE, Harvard University

November 1

WHY VOTE?

PROF. CHAS. E. MERRIAM, University of Chicago

The subjects for the Post-Election Series,
CONSTRUCTIVE ECONOMY IN STATE
AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, are as fol-
lows:

November 15

RETRENCHING IN STATE AND LOCAL
EXPENDITURES: A GENERAL VIEW

HON. MURRAT SEASONGOOD, Pres., National

Municipal League
PROF. A. E. H.\TTON, Northwestern University

(A summary of the report of the Committee on

Constructive Economy of the National Mu-

nicipal League)

November 22

REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES OF

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
PROF. THOMAS H. REED, University of Michigan
HOWARD P. JONES, National Municipal League
PROP. GEORGE S. COUNTS, Columbia University

November 29

REDISTRIBUTING FITNCTIONS OF STATE
AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

PROF. PAUL W. WAGER, University of North

Carolina
HON. O. MAX GARDNER, Governor of North Carolina
HON. H.UJRY F. BYRD, former Governor of Virginia

December 6

REORGANIZING COUNTY GOVERNMENT

PROF. ARTHUR W. BROMAGE, University o-f

Michigan
PROF. LEONARD D. WHITE, University of Cliicago
DR. LENT D. UPSON. Detroit Bureau of

Governmental Research

December 13

REFORMING FINANCIAL METHODS

DR. LUTHER GULICK, Institute of Public

Administration
PROF. HARLEY L. LUTZ, Princeton University
DR. RUSSELL FORBES, National Municipal League

December 20

REDUCING AND LIMITING LOCAL
INDEBTEDNESS

CARL H. CHATTERS. Municipal Finance Officers-
Association

C. E. RIGHTOR, Detroit Bureau of Government
Research

HENKY HART, Pres., Michigan Municipal
Advisory Council

December 27

REVISING OUR STATE AND LOCAL TAX

SYSTEM
DR. W. P. WILLOUGHBT, Brookings Institution
PROP. WILLIAM ANDERSON, University of

Minnesota
DEAN ISIDOR LOEB, Washington University

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Campus News

Under the Foreign Study Group of the
University of Delaware, Miss Delia Ann
Taylor of Kansas City, Missouri, will
spend her junior year at the University of
Munich and will return to Sweet Briar next
fall for her senior year.

Sweet Briar continues this year the ar-
rangement which it has had with the In-
stitute of International Education of ac-
cepting a foreign student who has com-
pleted some part of her university course.
Two French students have come in the past
two years. This September the college
will have a German student, Fraulein Kate
D. Strauss of Berlin-Dahlem, who has com-
pleted one year's work at Frederich-Wil-
helm Universitat, Berlin.

Following a plan suggested last year by
President Glass to further opportunities
for self support among students, there are
now twenty student waitresses serving in
Reid refectory.

Beginning this fall the Alumnae Office
is rendering a new service to the Sweet
Briar alumnae of Lynchburg. Notices of
lectures and concerts will be sent to every
member of the Association living in Lynch-
burg.

The private residence of Miss Ethel
Ramage, a member of the staff of the Eng-
lish Department, which is being built on
college property, is the center of building
interest this fall. The house is located
next to the one owned by Dr. Marion Bene-
dict, Associate Professor of Biblical Liter-
ature, and is of Georgian style.

The major improvement that was com-
pleted this summer was placing luider-
ground electric light wires which pass be-
hind Manson to Academic. This has elim-
inated seven poles and fifty overhead lines.
Another improvement is a six inch water
main, replacing a one and one-half inch
line, which was extended about five hun-
dred feet north of the music building.

Gray and Carson dormitories were re-
conditioned and painted both inside and
out. Additional weather-stripping was
added to Carson and also to the north and
west sides of the Infirmary.

Apartment House No. 1 was completely
overhauled and repaired, and water lines
which were in bad condition, were repiped
in the house.

Three of the Faculty Houses had the
interiors redecorated, and all the buildings
were checked for minor repairs.

The two parlors in Randolph have new
upholstered furniture in shades of green
and rust.

Much attention has been given to the
trees this summer. Due to the drought,
extending over a period of three years,
some of the oaks have become weakened
and consequently have suffered from chest-
nut and oak borers. Steps have been taken
to remedy this condition as far as is possi-
ble.

The Western LTnion has installed a Sim-
plex machine in their Western Union Office
at Sweet Briar.

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Alumnae Funds — A History
of Fund Raising

(Continued from page 13 I

The experience of the past clearly indi-
cates that the colleges and universities of
this country will always be in need of
funds if they are to continue their progres-
sive development and keep up with the
changes in an ever-changing world, and
it is quite evident that a progressive in-
stitution must have a continuous fund rais-
ing policy and program if present and
future needs are to be adequately provided
for. The gifts to institutions of higher
learning in this country will doubtless be
greater in the next twenty-five years than
they have been during the quarter century
just past.

Conning the Campaign

(Continued from page 29)

than predict a sweeping Roosevelt victory
in South Carolina and a Hoover vote of
confidence in Vermont. Much can happen
in six weeks. The campaign maj^ develop
upon its present aimless lines or new and
striking issues may arise. Conditions may
improve or they may get worse. Future
speeches will aid us in reaching our de-
cisions and perhaps answer moi"e of our
questions. The Digest poll will give some
hint of election day results. In any event,
whatever may happen in the remainder of
the campaign, if this potpourri has con-
tributed in some slight measure to sharpen-
ing the lines of the picture, it has served
its purpose — September 28, 1932.

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Alumnae News

Vacation With The Faculty

Miss Glass spent the last of June and the early
part of July in New England, returning to Sweet
Briar for the remainder of the summer.

Miss Button, who remained at Sweet Briar
through June, motored to Maine for a month.
From there she motored to Cleveland where she
stayed until she returned to the coUige early in
September.

Mrs. Lill spent her entire summer on campus.
Admission problems and additional duties inci-
dent to the inauguration of summer registration
for new students have demanded her attention
continually. She will, however, take an extended
vacation in December.

Dr. Harley spent the last of June and the
early part of July at her summer home in Crags-
moor. She sailed July 18 for England where
she attended the British Medical Centennial in
London. Following this meeting she flew to
Amsterdam going from there to Berlin, Dresden.
Prague, Vienna, Munich. Bern and then to Paris.
In many of thtse cities she visited the medical
clinics.

Mr. Woithington spent the summer at his camp
in West Virginia. He has recently accepted the
invitation of John R. Bacher, director of La
Fondation des Etats-Unis a la Cite Universitaire,
to become a representative of the Foundation at
Sweet Briar. The Foundation is a part of the
University of Paris, and exists solely in the in-
terest of the American students in Paris

Miss McLaws spent the early part of the sum-
mer in Washington later going to Wytheville.
where she devoted her time to painting.

Miss Sparrow spent the greater part of the
summer in England doing research work at
Oxford.

Miss Morenus motored to her home in Cleve-
land, New York, where she spent the summer.

Miss Ames spent the summer travelling in
England and Scotland.

Miss Crawford remained at Sweet Briar until
August when she left for the north to visit her
family, later going to Hockey Camp at Mt. Po-
cono, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Connor spent most of the summer visiting
his parents at their home in Ontario, Canada.

Mr. Scott, accompanied by Mrs. Scctt and
their two children, spent their summ r motoring
in the west, visiting Colorado Springs and Estes
Park, Colorado.

Mr. Edwards spent most of the vacation at the
college leaving occasionally for week-end trips
with Mrs. Edwards and their children.

Miss Long spent the most of the summer in
work at the British Museum, and attended the
Conference of the International Federation of
University Women held in Edinburgh and the
Malvern Dramatic Festival.

Mrs. Raymond spent her third summer at the
Macdowell Colony at Peterbcrough. New Hamp-
shire. She devoted most of her time to writing
reviews and working on the proof of her new
book "Oliver's Secretary."

Mr. Finch attended the summer session of the
Surette School of Music at Concord, Massa-
chusetts, and then went to New York City for
special study.

Miss Eraser spent most of the summer in the
manuscript divisions of the Harvard Library,
the New York Library and the University of Vir-
ginia, w^orking with the Lee manuscripts. She
has been awarded a Grant-in-Aid for research by
the Social Science Research Council of America
and is working in the field of American diplo-
matic history during the Revolution.

Miss Benedict spent the summer visitino: her
parents at their home in northern New York.

Miss Robinson spent the summer at her home
in California. Slie made the trip both ways by
boat, going through the Panama Canal.

Miss Stochholm sailed immediately after the
close of college for her home in Copenhagen,
Denmark, where she remained for the summer
visiting her family.

Miss Rogers, accompanied by Miss Maher,
motored to her home in Kentucky for a short
visit. They spent some time at Hot Springs,
Virginia, later going to Hockey Camp, at jMt.
Pocono, Pennsylvania.

Miss Beard spent the summer at her home in
Boone-Mill, Virginia.

Mr. Hudson, accompanied by Mrs. Hudson and
their two daughters, drove to Vermont where
he was a Counselor at Camp Winape-De-Ce-Ca in
East Charleston.

Miss Reynolds lingered at Sw'eet Briar until
early in July when she returned to her home, in
Baltimore, for the remainder of the summer.

Mr. Martin spent the summer visiting his
brother in Baltimore.

Miss Weaver spent the summer visiting Miss
Morse at her home in Massachusetts.

Miss Hague spent a month at Woods Hole,
Massachusetts, later going into Vermont to ob-
serve the eclipse of the sun.

Madam Johnson attended the summer session
at Johns Hopkins University, where she spent
much time on her dissertation for her Master's
degree.

Mr. Bennett divided his time between Ann
Arbor. Michigan, and visiting his family in
Denver, Colorado.

Mr. Barker studied at the summer session of
Columbia University. He and Mrs Barker re-
mained in New York City until they returned to
the college early in September.

Mr. Mangiafico, accompanied by Mrs. Man-
giafico. motored to New York City where they
spent the summer. Mr. Mangiafico attended the
summer session at Columbia University.

Miss Boone sailed the middle of June to spend
the summer at her home in Stoke-on-Trent. Eng-
land.

Mrs. Wailes attended the summer school at
the University of Virginia.

Sweet Briar College

Miss Boudreaux sailed immediately after the
close of college for a summer of study at the
Sorbonne, in Paris.

Miss Pearl, after spending three weeks in
Toronto, Canada, spent the remainder of the sum-
mer at her home in St. Johns, Michigan.

Miss Ramage remained at Sweet Briar to super-
vise the building of her new home.

Miss Harpster spent the summer at her home
in Toledo, Ohio.

Mr. Laukhuff attended the summer session of
the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, re-
turning to his home in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, for the
remainder of the vacation.

Miss Moody returned to her home in Rush-
ville. New York, for the summer.

Miss Young spent the summer at her home in
Black Mountain, North Carolina.

Miss Lomer motored to her home in Montreal,
Canada, and divided her time between visiting
her family and taking numerous short trips.

Miss Steptoe motored to West Virginia to visit
her brother later returning to spend the remaind-
er of the summer in Lynchburg.

Miss Endicott divided her time between visit-
ing her family in Washington and visiting friends
in Atlantic City.

Miss Hale sailed early in July for a summer
abroad, visiting Ireland, Scotland, England and
France.

The Modern Novel

(Continued from Page 26)

and sympathy which undoubtedly are hers.

There is one writer, however, who seems
to me to have been ruled by his own stand-
ards of excellence, inevitably derivative
though he is, and who has consciously im-
proved his art. I refer to Ernest Heming-
way. From studies of expatriated adoles-
cents in "The Sun Also Rises" and grip-
ping short stories like "The Killers" he
has gone on to issue his "Farewell to
Arms" — one of the most exciting and sig-
nificant books of the past decade. It is
exciting not only for its subject matter but
for its unexpended power, the nervous
tension of its phrases, the characterising
quality of its seemingly casual conversa-
tions, the descriptions unlabored yet how
well remembered. It is a significant book
because Hemingwaj- without going to the
stylistic extremes of James Joyce has here
■written prose which is stript, plastic, ex-
pressive, modern as an Epstein statue.
And that is why. Hemingway, in spite of
a pre-occupation with the physiology of
love, is, to mv mind the most heartening
American novelist today — not for himself
alone but for what he may add to the sum
of American literary progress.

Compared witli the great figures of the
past these names seem insignificant. We
wonder why the Alladin of Inspiration

does not rub his lamp a little harder to
make a literary genius grow. Never has

the world spread at the feet of the novelist
more interesting material. Changing so-
cial, political and economic conditions;
ramifications in psychology; receding
frontiers of geography and of thought:
franker words and fewer inhibitions have
resulted in a state where every prospect
interests, though it does not please, and
only ink is vile — or shall we say, a little
thin. In such a mood we are inclined to
think that modern novelists are not living
up to their high calling as crystalizers of
thought, interpreters of character, creators
of mood, chroniclers of their times.

With leisure to read and money to buy
books, we say: "We are waiting." The
novelists reply: "Give us time. Time to
feel and to ruminate: to learn to write,
possibly in new forms: to live in a world
free from the insidious commercialism
which cheapens books. And we want,
too," I think I hear them say, "most of
all, a discriminating public — a public
which is prepared to look at humanity
and hence itself from new angles: which
is prepared to read us for something other
than for entertainment; or for physiologi-
cal stimulus: or for time-killing: or for
conversation: or for — lecturing. We will
try to write intelligently" they say. "Will
vou try to read and discuss and judge us
in the same way?"

Alumnae News

Class Personals

ACADEMY

Maria Garth Inge spent the summer at their
summer home on Dog River, Alabama.

Kathleen Sexton Holmes motored to New York
City this summer where she spent several weeks.

Florence Gage White has moved to Mentor,
Ohio, to live.

1910

Reunion 1933.

Eugenia Griffin Burnett stopped at the college
one day this summer en route to her home in
Richmond from visiting her mother in Salem,
Virginia.

Anne Powell Hodgrs has returned to her home
in Williamsburg after spending some time with
her brother at his horn? in Bluemnnt. ^'ira;inia.

Reunion 1933.

1911

1912

Reunion 19.33.

May Priddy. ex-'12. spent a day on campus
early this fall.

1913

Reunion 1933.

Sue Salughter has returned to her home after
spending the summer in England and on the
Continent.

1916

Martha Darden Ziezing has been spending a
month at \ ircinia Beach. She is now visiting in
Lynchbursr, Virginia.

Marjorie Johnson Goode, ex-'16, accompanied
by Mr. Goode and their son, spent part of the
summer at Cragsmoor in Dr. Harley's house.

Rachel Forhesh Wood, ex-'16, has moved to
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to live.

1917
Dorothy Grammer Krauter, ex-"17. spent several
weeks at Cragsmoor this summer.

1918
Grace MacBain Ladd, ex-'18, has moved to
Birmingham, Alabama, to live.
1919
Elizabeth Eggleston has organized the childr:n
of Hampden-Sydney into a Players Guild and the
group is becoming vei7 proficient in the art of
Puppet Shows.

Francis Wild Bose has moved to Beverly Hill,
California, to live.

1922
Lilias Shepherd is in London where she has
been studying in the field of sociology,

Selma Brandt Kress. ex-'22, has moved to Cali-
fornia to live.

1923
Reunion 1933.

Katherine W'eiser Ekelund has a daughter,
Georgia Katherine, born September 7.
1924

Mary Wilson Walker has returned to Raleigh,
North Carolina, to live.

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Elizabeth Pape has announced her engagement
to Mr. Fritz Mercur of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Esther Jack is now Mrs. Emerson V. Arnold
and has moved to Delaware. Ohio, where Dr.
Arnold is practicing medicine.
1925

Mollie Meriwether was married June 1 to Mr.
Thomas Overton Brooks and has moved to Shreve-
port. Louisianna, tc> live. She received a Secre-
tarial Certificate on the day of her Avedding.

Catherine Baker MacGregor. ex-"25, has a
daughter, Robin, born, in June.

1926

Edna Lee Wood has divided her time this sum-
mer between New York and Boston. She also
spent two weeks in Kent, Connecticut.

Kathraiyn Norris Kelley. accompanied by Mr.
Kelley and their young daughter, spent the later
part of the summer in Camden. JNIaine.

Katherine Blount visited Dorothy Bailey Hughes
this summer at her home in Pittsburgh. Katherine
is now \vorking at the New York University for
her M.A. in connection with her work in the
New York Health Department.

Martha Close Page spent the summer with her
parents in Pittsburgh.

Dorothy Keller motored to Denver, Colorado,
for several weeks this summer where she visited
Helen Dunleavy, ex-"26. Dorothy also spent some
time in Yellowstone Park.

Margaret White spent the sumrn'r in northern
Michigan.

Polly Cany Deic Woodson has moved to Low-
ville. New York, to live.

Elinor Green Conrad and Mr. Conrad spent
some time visiting in Pittsburgh this summer.

^Marion Adams Gore, e-\-"26. has a young son,
John Adams. The Gores have moved to Boston
to live.

Mai-y Stoddard, ex-'26, has been spending the
summer in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and will
return to Chicago the first of October.

1927

Janet MacKain Allen, accompanied by Mr
Allen, was on campus late in June en rout', by
motor, to spend some time in Norfolk, Virginia.

Corneila Wailes. while in Europe this summer
was entertained by the Lord jNIayor of Salisbuiy.
wh'n she went there to present him with an in-
vitation to open the Salisbury. Maryland, bi-
centennial in .'\ugust. She was on the New \ork
reception conmaittee, which met him when he
arrived in New York.

1928

Reunion 1933.

Marion Jayne Berguido has a daughter, Jayne,
born June 6.

Katherine Brightbill was on campus last week-
end en route to her home in Pennsylvania.

Grace Sunderland Kane, accompanied by Amilia
Woodward, '29, stopped at the college tlie last of
June, en route to Graces hems in Texas. On
the way they spent several days with Winifred
IT'est Madden.

Katherine Emery spent the summer as a mem-
ber of a stock company at Chatham, Massa-
chusetts.

Elizabeth Moore Schilling. ex-'28, has a son,
George Frederic, bom June 15.

1929

Nathalie Sidman has announced her engage-
ment to Mr. Herbert LeRoy Smith, Jr.

Emilie Giese was married on August 6 to Mr.
George Denman Martin.

Charlotte !Marks was married .\ugust 20 to
Mr. Stanley Greinert Schade.

Hallet Gubelman. accompanied by Charlotte
WhinneiT. spent several days on campus en route
to Asheville. North Carolina, where Hallet will
spend the winter and Charlotte will visit her be-
fore returning to her home in Toledo, Ohio.

Emily Braswell was on campus during the open-
ing of college this fall. She has just returned
from a ten months' trip around the world, in-
cluding in her longer stops China, India and
Greece.

Elizabeth Payne, ex-'29, has announced her
engagement to Mr. Nelson Williams Carter of
Petersburg, Virginia.

1930

Harriet Williams was married on June 27 to
Mr. Richard Nichols Cowell and has moved to
Boulder, Colorado, to live.

Lindsay Prentis was manied June 18 to Mr.
Robert William Woodroofe. Jr.. and has moved
to Cambridge. Massachusetts to liv?.

Non'ell Royer will be manied October 8 to
Mr. John Barbour Orgain. Jr.

Jan'is Sce'e Gammon has a daughter born re-
cently.

Josephine Reed spent the early summr with
Ruth Hasson. later going to Colorado Springs.
Colorado, for the remainder of the summer.

Ri'th Hasson has returned to h"r home in
Pittsburgh from visiting Serene Aites Henn',
ex-'30, at York Harbor, Maine.

Susan McAllister has moved to Moylan. Penn-
sylvania, to live.

Elizabeth McCrady is organizing a kinder-
garten class to be held at her home during the
winter

Myra Marshall and her sister Susan '32. have
moved to Lexington, \irginia, to live.

Jun' Williams is working in the gift depart-
ment of one of the large stores in Detroit,
Michigan.

Gloria Jones Clauss. ex-'30. is spending (he
mnter in Paris with her mother.

M rritt Murphy Green, ex-"30- is living in
Manila. Philippine Islands.

Elizabeth Thomason Griffin, e.\-"30, has a son,
James Emory, born August 2.

1931

Ethel Ware has opened a hat shop in Upper
Mont Clair. New Jersey.

Margaret Lee will be married on November 11
to Mr. Glenn Thompson of Memphis. Tennessee.

Frances Brian was married on September 16
to Mr. Ames Bartlett Hettrick and will live in
Amherst, Virginia.

Peronne Whittaker and Jean Cole have been
spending some time on campus recently. Jean
has divided her time between Sweet Briar and

Alumnae News

Lynchburg where she has been the guest of
Elizabeth Clark.

Charlotte Kent spent the early summer at
Beach Haven. New Jersey, later going to Canada
and then to Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks.
She visited Marjorie Miller, "32. before returning
to her home in Richmond.

Martha von Briesen is at Radcliffe taking a
post graduate course.

Elizabeth Phillips has enrolled in an office
training course in Memphis. Tennessee.

Jean Ploehn will return to her home this fall
in Beattendoi-f, Iowa, after spending a year in
California.

Nancy Gaines, ex- '31, has announced her en-
gagement to Mr. Gustave A. Jaeger of White
Plains, New York.

Katherine Root Warner, ex- '31, has moved to
Glendale, Ohio, to live.

1932
SPECL\L NOTICE

Graduates are cautioned not to store
diplomas in cedar chests. There is enough
of the moth-killing ai'omatic oils in the
average cedar chest to soften inks of any
kind that might be stored inside them,
resulting in seriously damaging the
diploma.

Reunion 1933.

Sally Ainsworth is spending the ^vinter at home.

Virginia Bellamy is taking a business course.

Henrietta Biyan, Alice Dabney, and Sarah
Forsyth ^vill all be at home in Charlottesville
for the winter.

Courtenay Cochran is taking a business course.

Elizabeth Doughtie has just returned from a
trip to Europe and is planning to go to New
York about October 1. in order to study music.

Jessie Fisher visited Margaret Bennett this
summer, and will be in Dallas this winter.

Constance Fow'ler is planning to work in the
New Medical Center in New York, and to study
voice at the same time.

Eleanor Franke is in New York, taking the
store course offered by Macy's.

Mildred Gibbons "will be at home this winter.

Stuart Groner is also spending the winter at
home.

Virginia Hall visited Virginia Bellamy in
September.

Sarah Harrison has returned to her home in
Birmingham, after spending the summer in Vir-
ginia. She will make her debut this winter.

Jane Hays is taking a secretarial course at
Carnegie Tech.

Elizabeth Job is planning to go to the Kath-
erine Gibbs Secretarial School in Boston.

Irene Kellogg is taking the technician course
at the University of Virginia Hospital.

Ruth KeiT is attending the Prince School of
Store Sendee Education in Boston.

Marcia Patterson took a course in typing and
shorthand this summer and is studying G^rmat.
and a few advanced courses in the classics ai
Bryni Mawr this fall, as a start towards an M.A

Sarah Phillips is taking an office training
course at her home in Memphis, Tennessee.

Mildred Larimer is taking a business course.

Anne McRae is studying at Johnt Hopkins
Hospital.

Charlotte Magoffin will be at home until after
Christmas and is then planning to enter the
Columbia School of Journalism.

Hazel Stamps is working in a bank in Atlanta.
Georgia.

Betty Allen Magruder is studying to be a
technician at the University of V^irginia Hospital

Susan Marshall has moved to Lexington, Vir
ginia, to live.

Eleanor Mattingly is taking the technician
course at the University of Virginia Hospital.

Marjorie Miller is studying for an M.A. in
English at Magill Lfniversity in Montreal. She
Nqsited Betsy Higgins this summer.

Letha Monns was manied on June 24 to Mr.
John Wintringer Wood in the Princeton Chapel.
They are now living in Bloomfield, New Jersey.

Barbara JMunter sailed for France in August
and is staying in Tours until the middle of
October, w'hen she will go to Paris for the rest
of the winter to study.

Helen Nightingale is attending the Prince
School of Store Service Education in Boston.
Jane Hays visited her this summer.

Edith Railey is spending the winter at home.

Ruth Remon Avas abroad all summer, travelling
in England and on the Continent.

Frances Sencindiver was married to iMr. William
Stuart on August 29.

Sally Shallenberger has moved to Fort Hayes,
Columbus, Ohio, to live.

Adelaide Smith is planning to leave the first of
December for a Mediterranean cruis3 with her
family, and will probably be over in Europe
until the last of May.

Dorothy Smith attended the Oxford Summer
School for American Women and will be at home
this winter.

Virginia Squibb visited Marion Malm and Sue
Burnett this summer. She is planning to spend
a month in Neiv' York this fall, and will be at
home then for the rest of the winter.

Betty Liber is studying at the Caniegie Library
School of Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh.

Marjorie Ward is taking a secretarial course
at her home in Wilmington, Delaware.

Jane White spent the summer in JNIichigan
and Wisconsin and will be at home this winter.

Nancy Tucker Wilson will be at home this
winter.

Eleanor Wright has moved to Fort Hayes,
Columbus. Oliio, to live.

Elizabeth Claiy, ex-"32, is taking a course in
Zoology at George Washington University and is
planning to return to Sweet Briar in February
to get her degree.

Julia Coleman, ex-'32, is taking some courses
at the Art Institute and doing settlement work
this 'winter.

Nancy O'Brian, ex-"32, is studying at the Uni-
versity of Virginia.

Clarice Hancel, ex-"32, was married August 4
to Mr. Frederic Harry Sturdy.

Sweet Briar College

Marcelle Dominqut, ex'32, was mamed August
4 in Paris to Monsieure Maurice PeiTot.

Ex-1933

Mary Fendall Clemens is doing volunteer work
with the Family Welfare Association in Balti-
more and will graduate from Goucher this year.

Kathleen Conover is attending Northwestern
University.

Martha DeLay is attending the University of
Texas.

Susanne Gay spent the summer painting in
her own studio in Redding, Connecticut, and
plans to study this winter under Kimon Nico-
laides at the Art Students' League in New York.

Katherine Gochnauer plans to take up secre-
tarial work this winter.

Emma Louise Haller is attending the Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh.

Dorothy Hedges is attending Vassar.

Emma Hills will finish a secretarial course in
Hartford this winter.

Patricia Ireland is attending Denison Uni-
versity at Granville, Ohio.

Marjorie Kay is attending the L'niversity of
Texas.

Margaret McReynolds is attending George
Washington University.

Frances Neville will return to the University
of Texas this year.

Mary Nelson Neville is attending the Uni-
versity of Missouri.

Marion Porter Ure has moved to Jei-sey City,
New Jersey, to live.

Anne Spencer is attending the University of
Alabama.

Nancy Stack will return to Sophie Newcomb
College this winter.

Sarah Stewart plans to spend the winter in
Miami, Florida.

Jane Taylor is at the Sorbonne in Paris and
will return to the University of Missouri next
year.

Ann Watkins is writing a column for the
Press-Semitar, a Memphis, Tennessee, paper.

Sarah Ellen Wilson spent the summer at Wis-
consin University and will attend Vanderbilt this
winter.

Jane Word will be a senior at Barnard College,
Columbia University, this winter.

Betty Workman will graduate from the Uni-
versity of Chattanooga this year.

Glen Worthington is attending the University
of Texas.

Sarah Zoller is returning to Cornell University.

Kathleen Carmichael has returned to her home
in Washington, D. C, after spending several
weeks with Clare West Stark in Norfolk, Vir-
ginia.

Elizabeth Taylor spent a week on campus this
fall.

Ex-1934

Henrietta Martin Bartlett is in Hanover, New
Hampshire, with her husband, who is teaching at
Dartmouth College.

Marjorie Dexter is now Mrs. Clark and is liv-
ing in La Grange, Illinois.

Eleanor Fitch is attending ReseiTC University
at Cleveland, Ohio.

Virginia Hall is studying secretarial science at
Katherine Gibbs in New York City.

Betty Henningbaum has entered Northwestern
University at Evanston, Illinois.

Sallie Josephine Kent is attending the State
Teachers' College at Farmville, Virginia.

Jane Morrison spent the summer abroad and
is at her home in Charlotte, North Carolina, for
the winter.

Marian Oliver is taking a secretarial course at
Katherine Gibbs in New York City.

Marjorie Thuma is attending University of
Cincinnati.

Elvira Cochrane spent the summer in Europe
and is now attending the University of Alabama
at Tuscaloosa.

Katherine Robb is attending De Pauw Uni-
versity at Greencastle, Indianna.

Mary L. Higgins is going to school at Ro-
chester, New York.

Ella Jane Mertz is attending Carleton College,
in Northfield, Minnesota.

Sarah Turner is attending the University of
Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

Marjorie Westcott is attending the Grand
Central Ait School, New York City.

Mary E. Reif is attending the University of
Michigan.

Nancy Hotchkiss is attending the University of
Wisconsin.

Maiy Frances Hammond is studying costume
illustration at New York School of Fine and
Applied Arts until Februaiy; from Februai^ on
she will attend the Paris Ateliero of the New
York school.

Sue Arbenz is attending the University of
Kansas, at Lawrence.

Jane Forder is attending Washington Uni-
versity in St. Louis, Missouri, and is making her
debut with her sister in St. Louis.

Cleo Scott is attending the University of
Michigan.

Mary Young is attending the University of
Wisconsin.

Elsa Gerstacker is taking a nursery school
course at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

Mason Daniel is visiting in Nashville, Tenn-
essee, in the fall, and working in the Junior
League.

Mary Jane Hayden has enrolled at the Uni-
versity of Arizona, in Tuscon.

Elizabeth Collier is attending Emory University,
in Atlanta, Georgia.

Rosamond Garrett is attending the University
of Missouri, at Columbia.

Helen Closson will enter the University of
Illinois this fall.

Ann Armstrong is spending the winter at her
home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Martha Walcott spent the summer in England,
taking a five weeks" lecture course at Oxford.
She is spending this fall on the Continent, arriv-
ing home, in Dallas, Texas, near Christmas.

Marjorie Van Evera is attending Northwestern
University at Evanston, Illinois.

Edith Knox is attending Coe College, in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.

Eleanor Carpenter is attending the University
of Louisville.

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Louise Boren is attending the University of
Texas.

Marion Cox is teaching kindergarten in Ash-
ville. North Carolina.

Estelle Fariss is attending the University of
Oklahoma at Norman.

Oma Perkins Young is attending the University
of Oklahoma at Norman.

Frances Adams is visiting in Tiyon, North
Carolina, for a few months.

Abigail Donohue is attending the University of
Wisconsin.

Frances Chatham has enrolled at the Cliver-
Smith Kindergarten Training School in Hartford,
Connecticut.

Virginia Fosler is attending Butler University,
in Indianapolis, Indianna.

Helen Milliken Cook has moved to Bowling
Green, Kentucky, to live.

Margaret W. Beaver is attending Moravian Col-
lege for Women in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Maiy Ann Page is attending the University of
Chicago.

Elizabeth McAllister is attending the Miami
University at Oxford, Ohio.

Priscilla Mullen is studying physical education
at the Woman's College of the University of
North Carolina.

Marian Anderson is attending Lake Forest Col-
lege, Lake Forest, Illinois.

Bettina Silva has opened a. dancing school in
Thomasville, Georgia.

Priscilla Holcombe is attending George Wash-
ington University.

Elizabeth Anne Bode is taking nui'ses' training
at the Youngstown Hospital, in Youngstown,
Ohio.

Elizabeth Spray is attending the University of
Michigan, at Ann Arbor.

Victoria Parsons will spend the winter at her
home, Tye River, Virginia.

Maiy Hutchinson is attending the University
of Michigan, at Ann Arbor.

Bernadene Johnson is attending the Woman's
College of the University of North Carolina.

Joanna Fink will enter Northwestern University
at Evanston, Illinois, this fall.

Katherine Hanna is planning to attend Rollins
College, in Florida.

Marjorie Prestis has entered Connecticut Col-
lege.

Isabel Scott is attending George Washington
University.

Louise Peck is working as a stenographer in
Portland, Oregon.

Emily Timberlake is attending Mary Baldwin
College, in Staunton, Virginia.

Elizabeth W. Kiniiy is attending Katherine
Gibbs' School in Boston.

Helen D. Adam is continuing her work at
David Manne's in New York City.

Margaret Linebaugh is attending the University
of Oklahoma, at Norman.

Helens Hetzel is attending Penn State College
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Jerry Ricketts is attending Chevy Chase Junior
College, in Washington, D. C.

Suzanne Mackay will make her debut in St.
Louis, Missouri, this fall.

Maiy Lewis Nelson is attending the University
of Illinois.

Virginia Alford has entered the University of
Chicago this year.

Jean Lydecher was married June 7 to Mr.
Melvin M. Roberts and has moved to Charlottes-
ville to live.

Ex-'35

Dorothy Johnston spent the summer on Cape
Cod and during the winter is taking courses at
Columbia University.

Janet Jaqua is attending Art School in In-
dianapolis.

Doris Kendall spent the holidays in Michigan
and is now pursuing her courses at Northwestern.

Julia Kane enjoyed herself at Port Huron,
Michigan, during the summer months after which
she entered the University of Michigan.

Kay Lynch is attending a dramatic course at
Westminster College.

Katharine Louden attended Parson's School
during the summer after which she entered the
University of Iowa.

Jane Lawder enjoyed an extensive motor trip
through the West and is now attending the Uni-
versity of Texas.

Marguerite Laughlin has entered the University
of West Virginia at Morgantown, West Virginia.

Frances Martin motored through the West dur-
ing the summer months and is now travelling on
the Continent.

Evelyn Martin is now attending the University
of Missouri.

Dorothy MacKenzie visited during the summer
in Connecticut, after which she returned to enter
Northwestern.

Jane Mitchell is pursuing a designing course
at Carnegie Tech in the Margaret Morrison
School after she spent two months at Lake Erie.

Jean McDaniel is continuing her courses at the
University of Cincinnati.

Jane Meyer is attending the National School
of Fine and Applied Arts in Washington, D. C.

Evelyn Morris enjoyed a happy reunion with
her parents in China this summer.

Mary Beverly Neill vacationed in Hardy,
Arkansas, after which she entered the University
of Missouri.

Anne Jones is working in her father's office,
in Port Jervis, New York.

Evelyn Joyner is continuing her studies at the
University of Texas.

Julia Gillispie is a student at Katharine Gibbs
Business School in New York City after extensive
visits through the East.

Jackie Griel is attending the Women's College
of Alabama after a ten weeks' tour with the
Georgia Caravan Camps.

Marjorie Fowler spent the summer months at
Mullett Lake, Michigan.

Alice Field is a student at the University of
Georgia.

Catherine England is attending the University
of Michigan after an extensive tour of the East.

Jessie Lou Davis spent the summer at their
summer home in Wisconsin and this winter is
attending the University of Wisconsin.

Jeanne DeLamarter is pursuing her studies at
the University of Michigan.

Sweet Briar College

Anne Cockrill is continuing her studies at the
Junior College in Little Rock.

Jane Bucher is now a student at Ob^rlin Col-
lege after her summer on Candlewood Dale in
Danbuiy, Connecticut.

Frances Bradley made her debut in Raleigh,
September 9, after which she returned to St.
Mary's.

Agnes Wright is now a student at Vogue
School in Chicago.

Margaret Watts visited during the summer in
New England and is now taking a special course
at Randolph-Macon Woman's College.

Katharine Waddle entered the University of
Kentucky this fall after a summer camping trip
on the Kentucky River.

Margaret Williams is a student at King-Smith
Studio School in Washington, D. C.

Maiy Wynn is attending the University of
Texas.

Virginia Team vacationed in Minnesota and is
now attending the Kansas University.

Louise Tralles spent the summer in northern
Michigan and is returning to the University of
Washington.

Frances Spiller is pursuing voice lessons this
winter at her home in Fort Worth, Texas.

Selby Roberts studied nursing at Presbyterian
Hospital in New York City during the past year.

Margaret Rose entered the University of Te.xas
this fall.

Matilda Williams is now attending Bay City
Junior College.

Frances Reid is a student at Missouri Uni-
versity this year.

Helen James is pursuing a dietetic course.

Ruth Legum entered Goucher College in Balti-
more this fall.

Georgeana Miller spent the summer at Walloon
Lake in Indiana and plans to be in Fort Wayne
for the winter.

Mai7 Honevivell is spending the winter in New
York.

Katharine Albert spent part of the summer at
Cragsmoor.

Sophia Stephens will divide her time this
winter between England, Scotland and the Conti-
nent.

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FORMS OF BEQUEST

/ give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ , to be invested and from time to time

re-invested by said Corporation as it shall deem best, and to

be called the Endowment Fund. The

interest and income therefrom shall be applied by said Cor-
poration to the payment of the salaries of its teachers as it
shall deem expedient.

I give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ , to be used and appropriated by said

Corporation for its benefi.t in such manner as it shall deem
to be most useful.

I give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ , to be invested and from time to time

re-invested by said Corporation a3 it shall deem best, and to

be called the Scholarship Fund, the

interest and income to be applied by said Corporation to the
aiding of its deserving students in Sweet Briar Institute or
College.

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Sweet Briar College

DECEMBER 1932

^toeet IBriar 3lumnae J13etu0

Editor — Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge. '18

Table of Contents

The Old Oak Tree Frontispiece

From President Glass 3

Three Thoughts on Education — — . 5

Founders' Day 7

The College in the American Scene 7

Founders' D.ay Honors 9

The Alumnae Council Meeting 9

The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Aw.ard 10

A Page of Newly Elected Club Presidents 11

Sweet Briar Day 12

Our Alumnae Secretary 15

The 1932 Sophomore Tests 16

The Mary Helen Cochran Library 1931-1932 18

Rue de Chevreuse 21

A Merry Christmas in Peiping, China 22

Hoard Coupons for Sweet Briar 24

From the Athletic Department 26

The Garth-Estill Collection 26

We Point With Pride 26

The Globe Theatre — An Adventure in Marionettes 27

The Objectives of Fund Raising .— 31

My Year in France 32

Dividends Preferred 34

The Measure of Milton 36

Class Personals 41

The Old Oak Tree

From President Glass

November 18, 1932.

ONE of the nicest things I am allowed
to do in the fall of each year is to
write to the Alumnae and to chat
along in an informal way about whatever
is uppermost in mv mind.

Our connection with St. Andrews is, of
course, rather well forward in my thoughts
since I am just back from a hurried but
most intercLting visit to the university. I
went over with the three juniors who are
studying there this year; Alice Shirley
studying physics and mathematics, Mary
Walton McCandlish studying history and
economics, and Katharine Williams studv-
ing English and history. I waited in the
ante-rooms while these young women con-
sulted the proper advisers who "sit" from
ten to twelve for such purposes, I listened
to student conversation, learned the nick-
names of professors and their outstanding
peculiarities, came to know the differences
between bijantines, semis, and tertians
(freshmen, sophomores and third year stu-
dents), found my way about their univer-
sity buildings, assisted in buying the scar-
let gowns with maroon velvet yokes that
all undergraduates must wear to class, and
on other college occasions toted the parcels
that university etiquette forbids students in
gowns to carry, attended a lecture into
which the men went first while the women
stood back and from which they likewise
emerged first, after having declared their
approval or disapproval of the professor-
ial remarks by much foot-shuffling. I lived
in the largest of the women's residence
halls, sat at the high table with the War-
den, Miss Dobson. a charming daughter of
a charming father, Austin Dobson; wished
I could chant the Latin grace that besan
each dinner and the gloria that ended it.
I walked in the lovely gardens where
flowers were still plentiful, enjoyed my
own open fire about the size and shape of
a slice of pie, but wonderfully efficacious
in heating the room: and got amusement
out of seeing our three novices learn how
to lay and tend theirs.

I was in and out of the library. I was
present at the lovely opening chapel ser-
vice in St. Salvators, and saw and took a

movie of the picturesque procession of
students all in scarlet gowns that regularly,
after service each Sunday, proceeds down
to the old pier which runs out into the sea.

In addition to getting acquainted with
all these features of student life, I met so
many members of the faculty in their own
and each others' houses that I got a sense
of really knowing what the university was
doing.

The Sweet Briar girls are happily settled
and every letter tells how delightful people
are to them. They live in separate halls
and so get more quickly into Scotch groups.
They are keen over what the)' are studying
and are being stimulated by the novelty
and the historic background, but seem none
the less to know what they are about in
their work. I think we have done a good
thing for them and a good thing for Sweet
Briar in arranging this year for them.

Another thing frequently in the front of
my mind this fall — you know it is always
the thing we are beginning and planning
for the future that I must talk about — is
the enriching of our offerings and oppor-
tunities at Sweet Briar in the Arts. \ou
learned in the last issue of the magazine
of the subvention from the Carnegie Cor-
poration for this purpose, of the additional
staff in the Art Department and in the
Music Department, and of Mr. MacKaye's
being a visiting professor.

We are also beginning more actively to
co-ordinate one department with another
in this field. Miss Nora Staael was chosen
in Physical Education especially for her
skill in teaching dancing. Mr. Martin has
just written a Serenade, to be accompanied
by stringed instruments only, for the pre-
sentation of Mr. MacKaye's "A Thousand
Years Ago" which Paint and Patches will
give the night before Thanksgiving, and
Miss Litchfield and members of the en-
semble are doing all of the incidental
music to the play, a prologue, marches,
and pantomime dancing.

The Sweet Briar Glee Club has a concert
in conjunction with the Club from Wash-
ington and Lee Lhiiversity on December
third, and another one planned with the
L niversity of Virginia Club in the spring.

Sweet Briar College

The lectures and concerts of the year, more
than in some other years, offer stimulation
in this field; in music, the Boston Sinfo-
nietta, Tsuya Matsuki in a piano recital,
Elisabeth Schumann the exquisite lieder
singer, Frank Kneisel in a violin program;
in art, lectures by Walter Pach, the eminent
artist and critic, and by Thomas H. Benton,
whose murals in the New School for Social
Research have recently called forth much
comment; as well as exhibits of eighty-eight
Daumier lithographs, and of a group of oil

of Malvern Festival fame on "Theatrical
Audiences of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries"; and in the dance, Martha Gra-
ham whom many people consider the out-
standing figure in dancing as a creative art
in America today.

We know that there is something in Sweet
Briar that makes it a proper home for ar-
tistic thought and expression, and we hope
to enrich this side of our life until it in-
forms everything that we do, and make, and
have.

The Portrait of Miss Glass by Nicholas R. Brewer

paintings from the Hudson River School
up to the present day. At the Woman's
Club in Lyncliburg we have a chance to
see the landscapes and portraits of Nicho-
las R. Brewer, who displays a portrait of
your semi-dilapidated president which he
has just painted for no good reason! It
is an interesting and rather distinguished
canvass. In the field of literature and
dramatics we have Philip Guedalla talking
about "Limitations of Biography," and
Mrs. Patrick Campbell on "Beautiful
Speech and the Art of Acting." Mr. Allar-
dyce Nicoll, an authority on drama and

There is another layer in my mind just
behind this, but more I must not write in
this issue or I shall not be asked to write
in another. When any of you come near
us do not pass us by, and when you come
to Sweet Briar do not pass me by.

Your, more or less,

obedient servant.

Alumnae News

Three Thoughts on Education

By Alexander G. Ruthven

President, University of Michigan

(Editor's Note — Dr. Ruthven, president of the University of Michigan since 1929, has been con-
nected witli that institution in various capacities since 1906, when he became instructor in zoology
and curator of the museum. After becoming head of the zoology department in 1927 he was made
dean of administration in the university a year later, and finally president. He is a native of Iowa,
where he was horn in 1882; he graduated from Morningside College in 1903 and received a Ph.D.
dearee from Michigan in 1906.)

ONCE upon a time a distinguished
Englishman said in poetic language
that east and west can never be jux-
taposed. In limited as well as in broad
applications tliis observation is erroneous
and has caused much harm. East and west
and north and south have always met in
some measure; each has borrowed from
the others and none can be altogether in-
dependent. Provincialism is only an early
growth stage of society. We may well
return dianks to the spirit which is guid-
ing the progress of civilization that in the
educational field we are coming to appre-
ciate the unity of mankind, even if our
conscious contributions to the realization
of the concept are made too slowly and
sometimes even begrudgingly.

Three Essentials. The problems of edu-
cation are not more than accidently in-
volved with differences in race and creed
and geographic position. They do include
such internal and external factors as himian
nature, language, costs, and two major
needs of society — economy of time and
econmy of money. I submit that three
essentials of an efficient educational pro-
gram the world over are proper orienta-
tion for each student, progressive training,
and thorough-going co-operation between
institutions.

1 — Proper Orientation. It requires no
special keenness of observation to discover
the fragmentariness of our educational of-
ferings. Altliough educators are criticized
for this, the disunity is not only unavoid-
able but is bound to increase. It is part
of the price we pay for progress. At the
same time it is possible to do more than is
being done to give the student an appre-
ciation of the unity of knowledge. That
teachers are beiinning to see tlie need for
correcting the impression easily gained by
the student — that the subjects of instruc-

tions are disconnected — is evidenced by the
recent experiments in orientation courses.
Orientation in the broad sense should
be a continuing process and have three
aspects — exploration for the purpose of
discovering interests, the correlation of
facts as they are learned, and the broad
synthesis of learning to produce a work-
ing philosophy. It is fundamentally sound
practice, too, often neglected by teachers,
to permit the student to explore the several
fields of knowledge, and it is good peda-
gogy for the instructor to relate facts as
they are presented. Neither of these
methods should, however, be confused with
the third type of orientation — the broad
synthesis of learning — as they are when
not used at the proper times in mental
growth. For example die plan of giving
broad synthesizing courses to beginning
students is wrong in that it involves con-
fusion between orientation and initiation.
An introductory course, no matter how ex-
tensive, cannot properly be an orientation
course. To become oriented about some-
thing one must have the something to
orient, and the more of it the better. A
conclusion can no more function as an
introduction than an introduction can serve
as a conclusion. Again, just as training
in every discipline should be preceded by
a period of exploration, and should pro-
vide correlations as well as facts, it should
culminate in an orientation course which
not only places the subject in the general
field of knowledge but, as a part of tlie
process, presents its history in a satisfac-
tory way. Knowledge and experience form
the background of a working philosophy,
but only adequately when they include the
whole extent of observation of the race.
''Not to know what has been transacted in
foriner times is to be always a child. If
no use is made of the labors of the past

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ages, the world must always remain in the
infancy of knowledge. ' This conclusion
of Cicero is applicable to the intellectual
growth of every mdividual — the scientist,
the artist, the mechanic, and the farmer.
Man being man, and knowledge being an
acquired character, it will ever remain true.

2 — Progressive Training. When I say
that training in a discipline should cul-
minate in an orientation course, I imply
that the training is progressive. I am well
aware of the fact that the fragmentation of
education is often permitted to eliminate
in large part any definitel)- graded pro-
gram. To be sure, the courses in English,
Zoology, Art, etc., are numbered 1, 2, 3,
4, and upwards, and there are customarilv
pre-requisites of one kind or another, but
only to a limited degree do these measures
contribute to a desirable progressiveness.
At least definite sequences of courses built
solidly one upon another to form a stable
edifice are not to be found in any school.
Admittedly the concept of progression in
instruction by fixed regulations cannot be
carried too far because of the variability
in students and the overlapping and blend-
ing of fields of knowledge. But the prin-
ciple of graded instruction is sound, and
until many of the present offerings are
eliminated or placed in proper sequence,
and until provision is made in every other
way for orderly mental growth, there will
be a continuation of the waste of the stu-
dent's time through temptations to take
work he ^vill not need or to do work which
requires less effort than he is capable of
giving.

3 — Co-operation Between Institutions.
Reflection upon proper orientation and
upon progressive traming leads logically
to a consideration of inter-institutional re-
lations. It is not too much to say that
educators appreciate more than they will
openly admit that our schools of advanced
learning are exhibiting a deplorable pro-
vincialism. For the inception of this spirit,
no one can rightly be blamed: for its con-
tinuation every one interested in our edu-
cational institutions must accept responsi-
bility. Many of these schools ivere estab-
lished when transportation was slow, diffi-
cult, and expensive. It has been necessary
for them to serve a more or less definite
clientele. In consequence duplication of

effort has not been uneconomical but the
duty of the institution: a duty that, until
recent years, has been the more easilv per-
formed because of the limited field to be
covered. Within a half century we have
seen tlie fields of knowledge expand great-
ly, curricula lengthen astonishingly, trans-
portation put within die reach of everyone,
and the schools placed in the position of
competing for students. Duplication of
effort has come out of unit responsibility.

It is unthinkable that the attitude of
isolation of our colleges and universities
should be allowed to continue either be-
cause of tradition or an attitude of com-
placency. Society should not be asked to
pay the costs of useless duplication in any
of its activities. Logically the next step
in educational progress should be co-ordi-
nation of the schools, and since this inte-
gration of effort cannot to advantage be
forced, hurried, or unintelligently guided,
educators must take the initiative, study
the problems, and perform the necessary
experiments. By common agreement fields
of specialization should be allocated to
different schools and students should be
distributed according to their interests.
\^Tiile it is not to be expected, or desired,
that our mstitutions will altogether give
up their individualism, there would seem
to be no real reason why this period should
not witness at least die inception of an in-
telligent integration among the institutions
of each state or in other areas of concen-
tration. In this belief. I have proposed for
^lichigan an advisorv committee on educa-
tional programs and policies, made up of
representatives of each institution of higher
learning under tlie chairmanship of the
Superintendent of Public Instruction. This
plan would, if put into effect, give oppor-
tunity for intelligent plaimmg and inde-
pendent thought without the sacrifice of
tlie autonomy of the schools, and thus have
both educational and financial advantages.

In Conclusion. It is not too much to
hope that a beginning of co-ordination of
effort in education will soon be witnessed,
that instruction will become more progres-
sive, and that a more serious attempt will
be made to orient the individual by giving
him an acquaintance with the history of
knowledge, in order that students may be

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Alumnae News

Founders' Day

Founders' Day this year was indeed
memorable for those alumnae who were
fortunate enough to be able to return to
the college for this occasion. A week
before the day arrived, our president, Edna
Lee Wood, '26, came down from her home
in New ^ ork City, and shortly after mem-
bers of the Council and other alumnae
began to arrive. We were enough for a
special table, to ourselves, in the refectory.
Miss Glass dined with us, Miss Button en-
tertained us at tea in her apartment, and
our own Eugenia Griffin Burnett, '10, pre-
sided at the exercises in the chapel Foun-

ders' Day morning. Guests, faculty, alum-
nae, and seniors stopped at the Daisy Wil-
liams G}Tnnasium, on the way to the ser-
vice at the Monument, where Mrs. Wood
unveiled the plaque of Daisy Williams
which now hangs in the entrance hall of
the Gymnasium. Before the unveiling
Miss Glass spoke briefly of the early life
of Daisy and told of the finding of the
plaque by Miss Dix last summer. Little
is known of this bronze likeness of Daisy,
but it is fitting that this medallion should
hang in the building which bears her name.
That afternoon Mrs. Wood and Dr. Maurer
received with Miss Glass at her reception.

The College in the American Scene

THE colleges of the Lnited States
have justified their founders who
started the institutions with a dream
of building a new civilization," said Dr.
Irving Maurer, president of Beloit College,
Beloit, Wisconsin, in his address on
Founders' Day.

Dr. Maurer suggested that it was a great
deal easier to found a college than to be
president of it, for the founders had no
traditions to live up to, no alumni to please,
and no faculty to pass judgment on them.
The people in whose hands lies the task of
guiding educational institutions have, in-
deed, a great responsibility and Dr. Maurer
assured his audience that, in spite of the
criticism which is continually heard, many
of them have fulfilled it in a highly credi-
table manner.

In outlining what was expected of a
good college, Dr. Maurer said that it
should "make for a more humane and
better social order." He pointed out that
the college has concerned itself with ideas,
and in turning students' attention from
external things to the somewhat more ab-
stract, it has helped to break down social
castes and make democracy a reality by
giving all thinking people, no matter from
what class they may come, something to
share in common.

"The colleges of America are among our
finest democratic communities. The col-

leges still believe in the individual. They
have cherished at their heart a loyalty to
the American ideals of living. There rests
upon our colleges a vivid memory of the
achievements of an Anglo-Saxon individ-
ualism. Our background is still the back-
ground of pioneers, their settling of a new
continent, their throwing off of suppres-
sion and tyranny. * * * And if you would
know America as many of us know her,
if you would believe in her as possessing
the capabilities for nurturing a race of
free men and women, go to her colleges."
"It is the colleges of America which
have challenged the machine age," Presi-
dent Maurer continued, "not because tlie
colleges fear the machine but because they
wish to keep mechanism in the role of
servant rather than in the role of master.
Wherever you see in our modern cities,
programs of welfare, of neighborliness, of
beautification, wherever you see a con-
scious striving to soften the rigid proced-
ure of svstem with a touch of humanness,
you can find at the center the carrying out
of a college dream. * * ^ And if you look
today in America to find people who have
never fullv accepted the forces which have
made America what she is today, super-
ficially at least, you will find them on the
campuses of American colleges and univer-
sities. The growtli of corporate wealth to
the point where an amazing number of

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American wage earners and investors are
less and less the captains of their souls,
the breeding of an inveterate acquisitive
ness in the thought life of millions through
the hope of getting rich without work, sim-
ply b)' guessing correctly in the market.
the over urbanization of life through a
foolish, short-sighted, needless congestion
of population into great cities where life
is cursed for the commons with a stifling
anonymity, these things have always been
challenged by the colleges. '

President Maurer insisted that the Amer-
ican colleges have rendered "an honorable
service in the field of religious idealism."
He combatted the idea that colleges tend
to take away the student's religion, arguing
rather that thev help the students to find
the larger religion by which they may live
in the enlarging world of today, and gave

the following credo for the colleges:

"The colleges of America today believe
that unselfishness works, that good will is
practicable, diat modern industry can be
Christian, that men are motivated by other
than money standards. They believe that
war is the great atheism, that modern civil-
ization can live most nobly without war,
that patriotism is somediing bigger than
the readiness to kill other nationals. They
believe that poverty is not necessary, that
it is the will of God that it is possible for
all men to enjoy the world, to share its
fruits, to live the good life. They believe
that politics can be high grade, that it is
possible for every town and city to be a
beautfiul home for the human spirit. And
because the colleges believe this the cause
of true religion is served, and modern
America ignores the colleges at her peril."

ALUMNAE RETURN FOR FOUNDERS' DAY

Front Row, Left to Right — Jeanette Boone. '27; Edna Lee Wood. '28; Margaret Banister, '16;

Vivienne Barkalou- Breckenridge, "18.
Center Row, Left to Right — Nancy Worthington. '31; Fanny O'Brian Hettrich, "31; Virginia

Quintard, "31; Marie Klooz, "23.
Back Row, Left to Right — Peronne Whittaker, '31; Helen Sims, '31.

Alumnae News

Eugenia Griffin Burnett, '10

Founders' Day Honors

Founders' Day Honors were awarded to
twelve upperclassmen this year. These
honors represent the highest attainment of
scholastic merit at Sweet Briar College.
The awards are given only to seniors and
jmiiors and are based on the entire pre-
vious record of the student. This year
members of the junior class had an ex-
ceptionally superior record and therefore,
more than the usual number received the
honor. The student who receives this
honor is granted voluntary class attend-
ance and one special individual privilege
during the year.

The Manson Memorial Scholarship,
given each year b)' the Alumnae Associa-
tion, is awarded to the scholarship student
who is not only outstanding in her schol-
astic record, but also in the ideals and
activities of her class and college. Abi-
gail Shepard. '33. from Cincinnati, Ohio,
who spent her junior vear in France last
year, won this distinctive honor.

The foUowins students were given
Founders' Day Honors: Seniors — Helen
Bond, Mary Imbrie, Abigail Shepard, and
Hetty Wells. Ju-iors — Eleanor Alcott,
Connie Burwell. Julia Daugherty, Cath-
erine Marshall. Sara Merritt, Marcia Mor-
rison, and Marjorie Smith.

Meeting of the Alumnae
Council

The fall meeting of the Sweet Briar
Alumnae Council was held on Thursday
night, October 27, at eight o'clock in the
Alumnae Office. Plans for the year were
discussed and the following decisions were
reached. The Council approved the plan
to launch a campaign for 150,000 coupons
which would buy for the office a much
needed addressograph. These coupons are
from products of the Colgate-Palmolive-
Peet Company, whose Premium Depart-
ment made possible the plan.

It was also decided that Class Agents
should be appointed as a means of obtain-
ing additional items for Class Personals.
The full list of these appointments made
by the Council will appear in the March
number of the Alumnae News.

Several propositions that had been pre-
sented to the secretary for consideration,
were taken up in detail b}" the Council and
recommendations on these will be made at
the annual meeting of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation to be held on Monday, June 5,
1933.

President Glass and President Maurer

Sweet Briar College

The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award

THE Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award,
established by the Southern Society
of New York in honor of the first
president of the Society, was conferred
upon Mr. Robert L. Cumnock, of Alta-
Vista, Virginia, by Sweet Briar College on
Founders' Day. Sweet Briar is one of the
fifteen Southern colleges privileged to con-
fer this award, and did so on this occasion
for the first time, selecting
Mr. Cumnock for this honor
because of his years of de-
voted and unselfish service
to the college.

The New York Southern
Society established the
award for the purpose of
"perpetuating the memory
of Algernon Sydney Sulli-
van's life in such form as
shall be most expressive of
his character." The award
may be made annually to
one senior and one person
not of the student body by
each of the privileged colleges. "The Non-
Student Award recognizes accomplishment,
but disinterested service is the fundamental
principle of both as it was the keynote of
the life of Algernon Sydney Sullivan."

In conferring the award President Glass
presented Mr. Cumnock to Eugenia Griffin
Burnett, '10, who represented the Board of
Overseers and who made the award with
the following citation: "Robert L. Cum-

Mr. R. L. Cumnock

nock, member of the Board of Directors
and of the Board of Overseers of Sweet
Briar College and long Chairman of both
Executive Committees, for your abundant
and unselfish service, for your high ideals,
for your wise counsels, for your unfailing
gentleness and courtesy, for your affection-
ate interest in persons and causes, for what
you have done for Sweet Briar College
and Sweet Briar people, be-
cause of the quality of the
man you are. Sweet Briar
College confers upon you
its Algernon Sydney Sulli-
van Medallion with the hope
that the affectionate appre-
ciation it betokens will be
to you a source of satisfac-
tion and to others an in-
spiration."

By means of the Sullivan
award Rollins College has
honored Dr. Irving Bachel-
ler; the University of Vir-
ginia the Reverend Noble
C. Powell; the George Peabody College
for Teachers Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes,
and the College of William and Mary Dr.
James H. Dillard. Mr. Cumnock, who re-
ceives Sweet Briar's first award, is a native
of New England, who has been for years
prominently identified with the textile in-
dustry, and has greatly endeared himself
to this section during his long residence at
Altavista. Virginia.

Alumnae News

A Page of Newly-Elected Club Presidents

Top Row, Left to Right — Ella Williams. '31, President Lynchburg Club; Dorothy Ayres Holt,

ex-'3L President Northern New Jersey Club.
Center — Margaret Green. ex-'29. Presid-nt Richmond Club.

Bottom Row, Left to Right — Lillie Maddox Whitner. "22. President Charlotte Club; Mary

McDiarmid Serodine, "29, President Cincinnati Club.

Sweet Brur College

Sweet Briar^Day

ONE of the most engaging features
of Sweet Briar as a college is to be
found in the number of distinctive
and appealing traditions that have man-
aged to get themselves firmly rooted in its
red soil in the comparatively short period
of its existence. One of these traditions,
and almost the only one which Sweet Briar
girls can take awav with them and continue
to observe for the rest of their lives, is
Sweet Briar Day. The annual observance
of a special day set aside for Sweet Briar
alumnae and present students to get to-
gether all over the United States and renew
their contacts and brighten their memories
of the college is something that is distinct-
ly Sweet Briar's own, and is an occasion
which is coming to mean more and more
to Sweet Briar and to the alumnae. Each
j-ear Sweet Briar Day is observed in a
larger number of cities and towns than it
was the year before, and each year these
annual gatherings are contributing their
part in building up a strong and efficient
alumnae association, strengthening the ties
between the college and the individual
alumnae, and securing the recognition of
Sweet Briar as one of the important wo-
men's colleges of the countr).

Sweet Briar Dav. December 28. falls
this year upon the Wednesday of Christ-
mas week and promises to be even more

successful than last year, when the occa-
sion was observed by seventy-three groups
in twenty-nine States of the Lnion. It will
be more successful if all of you alumnae
who read this issue of the News will help
to make it so. It is a simple thing to do —
to attend a luncheon or a tea or a diimer.
Even in the midst of the crowded Christ-
mas week it is not difficult to manage if
you plan ahead of time. And the simple
act of going to whatever form of enter-
tainment your alumnae club has selected
for that day will mean a great deal to
Sweet Briar and a great deal to you, for
every alumna who lets her college associa-
tions drop away from her has lost friends
and contacts and memories for the keeping
of which her life would be more satisfac-
tory. To Sweet Briar your attendance will
mean an active, interested and alert body
of alumnae who preserve the spirit of
Sweet Briar and maintain its traditions
and keep its name before the communities
in ivhich they live.

If. in your community, there is no Sweet
Briar club and no observance of Sweet
Briar Day. now is the time to start it.
Get together with the other Sweet Briar
girls in vour vicinitv on December 28, no
matter how few they are or how simple
this first meeting. Join with the alumnae
all over the United States in making Sweet
Briar Day a success.

Tentative Plans for the Meetings Sweet Briar Day are in the

Hands of the following :

State

City

Alabama

Birmingham

Mobile

Montgomery

Arkansas

Foi't Smith
Little Rock

California

Los Angeles
San Diego

Colorado

Denver

District of
Columbia

Washington

Florida

Jacksonville
Tampa

Chairman
Mildred Hodges. 1215 Glenview Road
Mrs. Claude C. Bullock. Spring Hill. P. 0.
Elva Quisenberry. 607 Felder Avenue

Eleanor Albers, 900 North 12th Street
Lucy Reaves, 1904 Battery Street

Mrs. Edward Hardie. 4445 Santa Monica Avenue,
Ocean Beach

Helen Dunleavy, 767 Williams Drive

Theda Sherman, 3324 Newark Street, N. W.

Mrs. yi. Drew Groover. 2311 River Boulevard
Mildred Gibbons, 823 South Delaware Avenue

Alumnae News

State
Georgia

City
Atlanta
Macon
Savannah

Illinois

Chicago

Indiana

Indianapolis
and vicinity

Iowa (Tri-City)

Davenport
MoHne. and Rock
Island Illinois

Kentucky-

Louisville

Louisiana

New Orleans
Shreveport

^laiyland

Baltimore
Hagersto«-n

Massachusetts

Boston and vicinity

Michigan

Detroit

?>Iinnesota

Duluth

Twin City

Minneapolis
Saint Paul

Mississippi

Vicksburg

Missouri

Kansas City

New Jersey

The Northern
Section

\ei\- York

Bufifalo

New York City
Rochester

North Carolina

Asheville

Charlotte

Durham

Raleigh

Wilmington

Ohio

Cincinnati
Cleveland
Findlay
Toledo

Pennsylvania

Lancaster

Pittsburgh

Philadelphia

Wilkes-Barre

South Carolina

Charleston

Columbia

Spartanburg

South Dakota

Aberdeen

Tennessee

Chattanooga

Memphis

Nashville

Chairman
Susie Ella Burnett. Jasmine Hills, Peachtree Road
Mrs. Ben O'Neal. Rivoli
Mary B. Craighill, 117 East 34th Street

Louise Lutz, 1461 East 56th Street

Emily Kersey, 903 East Jackson Street, Muncie, Indiana

Margaret White, The Lindens, Rock Island, Illinois

Mrs. Charles C. Culp. 1747 Sulgrave Read

Mrs. John M. Wisdom, 486 Walnut Street
Mrs. Thomas 0. Brooks, 1315 Fairfield Avenue

Elizabeth Marston, 2902 North Calvert Street
Elizabeth Kremer, 715 Hamilton Boulevard

Dorothy Paddock, 121 Raymond Street, Boston

Mrs. G. R. Fink, 17 Coverly Road, Crosse Point Farms

Frances Harrison, 2525 East 2nd Street

Dr. Marian Grimes, 813 Medical Arts Building,
Minneapolis

Elizabeth Young, 1334 Baum Street

Josephine Reid, 6207 Verona Road

Mrs. John Eliot Holt, 116 Prospect Street, East Orange

Mrs. Lawrence Bruce Graham, Dorchester Road,

East Aurora
Mrs. John V. Bouvier. 111. 935 Park Avenue
Mrs. Kennet Lefever, 132 Rockingham Street

!Mrs. Frank Hodd, Jr., 35 Reardon Street
Mrs. J. Heniy Whitner, 1701 Queens Road
Mrs. George W. Tandy, 117 West Seeman Street
Mrs. Jack Hoover, 1319 Mordecia Drive
Elizabeth Stevenson, 311 South 3rd Street

Mrs. \ictor Puerte Serodino. 3404 Middleton Avenue
Mrs. Troy Combs, 2977 Courtland Boulevard
Gertrude Anderson, 22 East Sandusky Street
Pauline Payne, 233 Kevin Place

Margaret Posey, R. F. D. No. 5

Dorothy Keller, 125 South Lexington Avenue

Mrs. Joseph W. Gardiner, Jr., No. 10 School Road,

Wymote
Mrs. A. Hardin Coon, 581 Gibson Street. Kingston

Mrs. David Maybank. The Battery

Mrs. W. D. Melton, Jr., 1834 Heyard Street

Mrs. William John McGuire, Jr., 165 Pine Street

Mrs. Clark Bassett, 1404 North Main Street

Mary Frances Westcott, 714 Oak Street
Sarah Phillips. 1766 Harbert Avenue
Jean Cole, 1618 19th Avenue. South

Sweet Briar College

City

State

Texas

Austin

Dallas

Fort Worth

Houston

Paris

San Antonio

Virginia

Amherst

Charlottesville

Danville

Lynchbura

Norfolk

The Eastern

Shore of \'irai

Richmond

Roanoke

Staunton

West Virginia

Charleston

Huntington

Wheeling

Wisconsin

Milwaukee

Sheboygan

Chairman
Mrs. W. E. Rowe, 309 West 18th Street
Jessie Fishei", 3504 Lexington
Frances Spiller. 2529 Willing Avenue
Mrs. G. L. Jones, 3016 Chevy Chase Drive. River Oaks
Mrs. Edward Norment, 158 South Church Street
Mrs. Curtis Vaughn, P. O. Box 1126

Ann Lewis

Dorothy Smith, P. 0. Box 1395

Ann Conway

Ella Williams, Dumont Apartments

Mrs. John Twohy. 11, 1425 Bowling Avenue

Marietta Derby, Accomac

Margaret Green, 1924 Grove Avenue

Mrs. Grover C. Halcomb, 972 LaBurnum Avenue,

Lee Hy Court
Agnes Sproul

Mrs. Bankhead Banks, 2525 Kanawha Street

Helen McMahon. Park Hill

Mrs. Hugh S. Brady, Howard Place

Mrs. Theodore Hartshorn, 3213 North Marietta .\venue
Mrs. Otto Gunther, 46 Lighthouse Court

Mrs. John Vernou Bouvier,
3rd (Janet Lee, ex-'29), up
on Arnoldean, during the J.
R. Townsend Memorial Chal-
lenge Cup Class at the North
Shore Horse Show. Mrs. Bou-
vier has been appointed the
chairman for the meeting of
the New York Club on Sweet
Briar Day.

Courtesy Town and Country

Alumnae News

Mrs. Vivienne Barkalow
Breckenridge, '18.

Hfjrns-Eii'irtg

Our Alumnae Secretary

By Edna Lee Wood, '26, President

BECALSE we feel the Alumnae of
Sweet Briar are anxious to become
better acquainted with the person
\\-ho. more than any other is daily working
for their benefit, and to "see what she real-
Iv looks like," we have at last persuaded
Vivienne Barkaloic Breckenridge to print
her picture and allow us to tell you of a
few of the jobs that fill her busy days.

First in importance to the Association
as a whole is her work for the clubs and
magazine. ^ ivienne is in close touch with
the officers of each of our seventy-one clubs,
suggesting plans for meetings and bene-
fits, making Sweet Briar Day arrangements
and buoying up many a sagging member
bv her enthusiasm. She is editor, business
and advertising manager of the Alumnae
l\'ews. She plans the contents, writes the
editorials, compiles the class personals,
gets the ads. proof reads the copy, arranges
the makeup and all but sets the type! And
we hardly need to add we think she does a
splendid piece of work.

Then she is hostess, and a charming one,
to all visiting Alumnae. She talks with

them, explains the Alumnae Office, and
shows them the new buildings. Those of
you who have been fortunate enough to
lunch at her Alumnae table or have coffee
in her attractive rooms need no other word
on this subject. At Commencement and
Founders' Day she makes all arrangements
for returning groups and supervises re-
unions. Vivienne also keeps all Alumnae
records and addresses, attends two Con-
ferences yearly of the American Alumni
Council, besides visiting many Alumnae
clubs.

And then, in her spare moments, she
evolves and directs plans toward the sup-
port of the Alumnae Office (Sweet Briar
China and etchings and now our great
"Soap" campaign), holds weekly confer-
ences widi the Alumnae Editor of the Sweet
Briar News, sends you lists for weddings
and college clubs and answers your ques-
tions as to the name of your room-mate's
second child and whom Susie Gish mar-
ried !

We appreciate her work and loyalty and
enthusiasm.

It is our turn to point with pride, and
^ve do so — to Vivienne Barkalaw Brecken-
ridge, '18.

Sweet Briar College

The 1932 Sophomore Tests

By Mrs. Bernice D. Lill, Registrar

SWEET BRIAR alumnae, proud of
the academic standards of their alma
mater, may welcome the results of
the sophomore tests with the same warmth
which suffused us at the college W'hen we
learned the outcome of the tests this fall.
For on these tests, given in one hundred
and forty institutions last spring. Sweet
Briar stands first among the women's col-
leges and second among all the institutions
which participated. The tests were taken
by 18.134 sophomores in thirty-eight states,
a distribution which gives a fairly broad
basis for making comparisons between in-
stitutions and studies of standards within
the institutions. Among the colleges and
universities which tested their sophomores
are: Agnes Scott College, Connecticut Col-
lege, Goucher College, Mills College, Mill-
saps College, New Jersey College for Wo-
men, Rockford College, Rollins College,
Western College for Women, University
of Buffalo, University' of California. Uni-
versity' of Louisville. University of Minne-
sota, University of Montana, University of
North Carolina and Vanderbilt Lniversity.
In Virginia only one other college par-
ticipated, namely, Hollins College. We
regret that many of the colleges with most
highl)' selective admissions did not join
in the testing program.

Some details about the tests themselves
and their administration at Sweet Briar
may be of interest. Without the co-opera-
tion and enthusiastic interest of the faculty
it would not have been possible to arran9;e
for six and one-half hours of testing, for
this is the amount of time consumed in the
actual taking of the tests. The interest of
the faculty went even further — four actu-
ally took the tests with the students and
had their tests sent to New York for scor-
ing. One senior and several repeating
freshmen also volunteered to take the tests
as a means of measuring their academic
achievement. The tests were scheduled for
two successive afternoons, three and one-
half hours the first day, three hours the
second day. The first part consisted of a
half-hour test of mental ability, which was
followed by a general culture examination
including questions on foreign literature.

fine arts, history and social studies. The
general science test took one hour, and the
English test two hours — the latter test cov-
ering spelling, grammar, punctuation, vo-
cabulary, and literary acquaintance. In
all there were over 1.600 questions which
were of the true-false, multiple-choice,
completion or identification type. The
tests were scored by the Educational Re-
cords Bureau, and reports of individual
scores were returned to the college in late
May. As time did not allow comparative
reports for institutions or national forms
to be completed at that early date, tlie col-
lege was supplied with a report of percen-
tile rankings based on the scores made in
1931 by sophomores in Pennsylvania col-
leges, where similar tests had been given
under the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad-
vancement of Teaching. This fall Presi-
dent Glass received a report giving Sweet
Briar's enviable rank among the one hun-
dred and forty institutions which used
these tests. Not only is Sweet Briar second
in average total score, but first in total
English and first in foreign literature and
history. In science our sophomores score
was near the median of the whole group.
A full report, illustrated with interesting
charts and complete tables, appears in the
October issue of The Educatwnal Record,
a quarterly published by The National
Council on Education. In this report the
identity of the participating colleges is
concealed by a code number.

This article includes studies of the tests
in relation to type of college, sex and
age of students, college classes and degree
groups. As we expect to find, there is
great variability within as well as among
the various colleges. In the two leading
colleges approximately three-fourths of the
sophomores are in the highest fifteen per
cent of the national group and ninety per
cent are distinctly above the national aver-
age: at the other extreme are colleges in
which more than ninety per cent are below
this average. In the report caution is taken
not to make generalizations on the basis of
these studies. However, it appears that in
seven of the eight variables tested the wo-
men's liberal arts colleges are superior, the

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exception being in general science. In this
regard the test results are in consonance
with other studies which have shown men
regularly superior to women students in
natural sciences, and women students su-
perior in English and foreign languages.
No other significant differences are found
between men's and women's colleges. The
youngest age group reveals itself superior
to all other age groups, as we should ex-
pect.

The purpose in offering these tests was
not primarily to encourage intercollegiate
competition, although a real intellectual
stimulus may result from such a program.
It is the hope of the committee fostering
the tests to provide an objective measure-
ment of achievement which may be of
value in the guidance of students — tests
which may measure not only what a stu-
dent has learned in the class-room but also
what she has gleaned from reading and
observation and has made an integral part
of her mental equipment. We realize at
Sweet Briar that we have a challenging
set of measurements whose value depends
upon the uses to which we put them. To
get this information before the adminis-
tration and the advisers is happily not so
difficult as it would have been before we
introduced our personnel records. On
these we can record the percentile rank
for each sophomore in such a way as to
be readily comparable with the academic
and personal record. Wlien the May re-
ports reached us they brought to our atten-
tion certain students whose scores were out-
standing. The reports were examined by
the chairman of the Committee on Depart-
mental Honors with a view of advising
these students about the opportunity of
reading for honors the plan of which,
alumnae will recall, was announced by a
special bulletin last March. The reports
brought to the attention of the adininis-
tration one student whose college record
placed her on probation, yet who displayed
an unusual grasp of the subject-matter
tested. President Glass had a very satis-
factory interview with this student. One
adviser noted the extremely low general
culture and English scores made by an
able student in science. This suggested a
plan for summer reading which should tie
in with this student's interest in science and
at the same time be of cultural value.

With the aid of the librarian an interest-
ing list of books was prepared, all of
which this student read during this past
summer. Although this kind of guidance
might be given on the basis of the aca-
demic record alone, its need is emphasized
when the sophomore tests confirm the
presence of poorly balanced development.
These are only a few of the definite needs
which the tests have already helped us to
meet. As we become more familiar with
the tests, further uses will suggest them-
selves in solving local problems of guid-
ance. The central committee which pre-
pared the tests is encouraging their practi-
cal use by sending to participating colleges
summaries of uses to which die colleges
are now putting the tests and by soliciting
suggestions for further uses.

The sophomore tests are part of a large
testing movement which embraces both
secondary schools and colleges and which
aims to measure cultural growth. Recog-
nizing the variability of achievement of
students upon entrance to college, the com-
mittee fostering the tests hopes to further
the use of achievement tests for the placing
of students in college at the level from
which they are prepared to progress. The
committee is co-operating with the Educa-
tional Records Bureau and the Progressive
Educational Committee in their studies of
achievement in the secondary schools so
that better guidance may be given students
regarding entrance to college. It wishes
to encourage intellectual growth and the
integrating of knowledge from whatever
source obtained by offering examinations
which will be more comprehensive than
tests on ground covered in various courses.
The committee also believes that the "stu-
dent must be brought to face his acquired
intellectual acquaintance in new forms and
new surroundings." It recommends, there-
fore, "the systematic use of comparable
tests available to institutions everywhere
so that each student may have an accurate
record of his achievement as measured
against common standards." The problem
of making such measurements is the task
before the Advisory Committee on College
Testing of the National Council on Edu-
cation, a committee composed of leading
educators, enjoying generous subvention

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Sweet Briar College

The Mary Helen Cochran
Library, 1931-1932

By Doris A. Lomer, Librarian

IT may come as a surprise to many
alumnae to hear that the Library (and
by this I mean the book collection) has
actually doubled in size since 1929. Even
then the 16,000 books in the old library
had overflowed the little building and were
shelved in one of the vacant classrooms in
Fletcher. Now over 32,000 volumes are
housed in the Mary Helen Cochran Li-
brary, and we are looking forward to in-
creasing our stack shelving within the next
two years in order to acconunodate the
yearly growth.

It is difficult to decide which of the 3,000
books received bv the Library during the
last year are most worthy of mention:
long-wanted definitive editions were pur-
chased for the English and History shelves,
the Spanish section was greatl)" enlarged,
and splendid Spanish and Italian encyclo-
pedias were added to the reference collec-
tion. This autumn a well-chosen list of
German books has been bought, so that
we now have a balanced working collec-
tion in Modern Languages, and the same
may be said for every other Department,
for gaps have been filled in and sections
brought up to date.

Despite the depression we are subscrib-
ing to more periodicals than ever before.
and are making every effort to fill in our
back files for reference purposes. The
Library now has a representative collec-
tion of current journals for every course
given in the college, as well as of maga-
zines of general interest. We also sub-
scribe to half a dozen daily newspapers
so that the campus may be posted on the
news of the day. In all, 211 periodicals
and newspapers are received, a very credit-
able showins; for a college library.

Last spring the Library had the good
fortune to acquire the Carnegie Art Col-
lection, a reference collection of books and
pictures assembled by the College Art
Association. To accommodate these addi-
tions, as well as the art and archaeologv
books previously in the Library, the large
Snecial Libraries room was more com-
pletely shelved and extra tables and chairs
were installed. The comprehensive art

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Founders" Day Exhibit of Daisy Williams" Books

reference collection contains not only
books on architecture, archaeologv", sculp-
ture and painting, but on textiles and cos-
tumes, practical manuals of woodcutting
and etching, and manuals for collectors.
The Art Room is used in connection with
the History and English courses as well
as by the Art students.

Another extension of the Library work
is the fitting up of a room to contain pam-
phlets, for much current material comes
in pamphlet form and cannot be adequate-
ly shelved in a book stack. \ ertical steel
files and open files on the shelves are
being filled with classified pamphlets.

The Browsing Room collection is grow-
ing slowly but steadily. A welcome gift
of S250.00 from the Bramhler enabled us
to add man) volumes to the collection
which now numbers 620 books. A few
novels were bought from this fund, but
principally biographies, books of poetry
and drama. A splendidly illustrated vol-
ume on Asiatic mythology by Hackin has
proved extremely interesting to the stu-
dents. No effort is being made to purchase

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all the "best sellers" of the day (though of
course some of these are chosen) for our
plan is to build up a collection that will
have a lasting appeal.

A gratifying increase in attendance has
been shoiMi during the past year. Stu-
dents spent 96,504 hours in the Library
and practically every chair in the building
was occupied every afternoon and evening.
The circulation too, has increased and
17,955 books were borrowed during the
term. This figure does not include the
large number of volumes circulated inside
the building.

During the year we catalogued over
5.000 books and added almost three times
that number of cards to the new catalogue.
]\Iuch remains to be done, but satisfactory
progress has been made in absorbing addi-
tions of books unusual in number for the
yearly gro^rth of a college library.

Exhibits have been a prominent feature
of the work of the library, and these have
been interesting and varied: reproductions
of etchings bv Rembrandt, and original
etchings by Grant Reynard, samples of
textiles, caricatures by Max Beerbohm,
examples of modern photography, por-
traits of musicians of today and silhou-
ettes of Americans of the IS-SO's. A loan
collection of original plates illustrating
the graphic arts was our most important

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TRAVELLING LIBRARY

Another Poster Made in the Interest of the
Travelling Library

exhibit, and a poster contest among the
students was undoubtedly the most popular
feature. Prizes were given for the best
posters, and a great deal of originality
was shown in those submitted. On Found-
ers' Day this autumn, one of the glass
exhibit cases displayed Daisy \^ illiams'
books, and in another case were volumes
which belonged to the Fletcher and Wil-
liams families in the first part of the 19th
century. Among Daisy's books Grimm's
and Andersen's fairy tales stood side by
side with the x\rabian iSights, Robinson
Crusoe and Little Women, while in the
other case Peter Parley, a Manual of
Etiquette, and a Ladies Equestrian Guide
pointed to the sterner upbringing of the
children of an earlier generation.

So far we have spoken of work within
the library, but we have had one interest-
ing extra-mural activity in the establish-
ment of Travelling Libraries for the one
and two room schools of Amherst Count)'.
On side roads of the county, in the foot-
hills of the Blue Ridge, are more than
thirty little one and two room schools
where no books but school texts are to be
found. The children in these schools are
as intelligent as those elsewhere in Vir-
ginia, but they are badly handicapped by
their lack of opportunities. To most of

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them reading is a thing that must be learnt
at school, but one that is of no use to them
outside, with their bookless homes and lack
of access to libraries. It is little wonder
then, that many of them drop out of school
at the end of the secondary grades for lack
of interest in studies that are with difficulty
made interesting without books. The State
makes some provision for school libraries,
but certain funds must first be raised by
the school. This is an almost impossible
task in a poor agiicultural district in hard
times, and few of the small schools can
avail themselves of the State arrangement.
Travelling Libraries, too, are sent out by
the State, but are limited to six a year for
each county, and they are not altogether
free, as the school (and in most cases this
means the teacher) must pay the postage.
This fact, and the fact that they are not
especially selected for the secondary
schools, means that the State Travelling
Libraries are used almost altogether in
the larger and consolidated schools. One
small library, that at Elon, should be
mentioned for the good work that it is
doing with the children. Under the guid-
ance of interested helpers this library has
grown to more than one thousand books
housed in a little one room building, and
circulates more than 200 books weekly to
the children and adults of the community.
Last year Sweet Briar students were ap-
pealed to for children's books for the Elon

Library and collected over 250 volumes.
This generous response and the interest
shown by the students in the country chil-
dren made the librarian and some of the
faculty think that Sweet Briar could extend
its field by helping the more isolated and
less self dependent communities, by send-
ing to the small schools travelling libraries
of good and attractive books more espe-
cially designed for the use of the younger
children.

The County Superintendent of schools
was consulted, and agreed that the district
supervisor of schools, who is keenly in-
terested in the plan, could transfer the
books from school to school. In this way
the problem of free transportation was
solved at the outset. With funds subscribed
by the faculty and staff a collection of
books was bought, well printed editions,
with gay pictures, of Grimm's fairv tales,
Robinson Crusoe, Robin Hood, Peter Rab-
bit, Alice in Wonderland and many other
old favorites. Helpful students made
posters for publicity and decorated with
the college seal a box made in the college
workshop, and on Founders' Day the first
Sweet Briar Travelling Library was an
accomplished fact. The box of books and
the posters were shown beside the case of
Daisy's books, as a memorial to that Am-
herst County child, and a few days later
the Travelling Library started on its initial
trip.

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Another Poster The First Sweet Briar Travelling Library

May You, as Lipsius Asked of His "Gentle Readers" — "Look with Favour Upon Our Work"

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Rue de Chevreuse

By Abbe Ernest Dimnet

(Editor's Note — Abbe Dimnet, distinguished Frenchman, is the author of ''The Art of Think-
ing," "The Bronte Sisters," "What We Live By,"' and many other critical and philosophical works.
He has visited frequently in America, and in October, 1930, he lectured at Sweet Briar.)

THE American University Women's
Club is in the rue de Chevreuse. Why
is there nothing arresting about the
name of the rue Bara, next corner, while
there is a graceful reserve, a native ele-
gance in the name of this rue de Chevreuse?
Some people who know that there existed
once a ducal family of the same name, or
who remember Port Royal, may imagine
that the glamour of those souvenirs is re-
flected in the name of the street, but it is
not so : even the new arrivals from America
cannot hear the restrained syllables of the
word Chevreuse without wondering a little
about its charm.

The rue de Chevreuse branches off the
rue Notre-Dame-de-Champs where I lived
during many years. It used to be a seduc-
tive though inconspicuous street, long, sinu-
ous and deliciousl)- quiet. Many famous
men in literature or art loved it. Whistler
had his studio in a house still standing,
overlooking a convent garden, and Ameri-
can artists were fond of it. Even the aloof
ultra-fashionable set known as "the Colo-
ny" would sometimes leave their haunts
between the Etoile and the Trocadero to
visit cousins here, and while wondering at
their "queerness" would get a whiff of a
less obvious elegance than that of the
Avenue d'lena.

Today the street is not quite its old self.
The disappearance of the Villa des Dames
was a great blow, and so has been the
erection of two or three modernities, but
the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs is still a
street of convents with vast gardens and
churmilles. of private mansions covly hid-
den away from view, of art schools and
of artists' studios.

The rue de Chevreuse is a chip from that
block, and looks strikingly like it, yet it
leads to the busiest centre of the vain agi-
tation which Montparnasse has come, of
late, to represent. Less than a hundred
yards away, the Dome and the Rotunde,
the Clochards and the Vikings are what
the Rat Mort and the Abbaye de Theleme
at the other end of Paris used to be only

a few years ago. But the rue de Chevreuse
does not care and hardly seems to know.
Reid Hall is a little world in itself, with
its own physiognomy, its atmosphere, its
shade and its church. The girls there must
feel a complex satisfaction at being at the
same time so near and so far above the
places where expectant tourists sit blankly
looking forward to shocks which do not
come, or which come so like trained actors
who know their cue that they no longer
shock anyone.

Happy girls living under the tutelage of
a woman not much older than themselves
but whose authority is not, and never can
be questioned, because it is all reason and
kindness. You see them oftener crossing
the exquisite Luxembourg Gardens on their
wa)' to the Sorbonne than strolling down
the Boulevard Montparnasse. They are
"American girls in Paris," but they are
primarily students, and they show it: there
is an eager seriousness on their young
faces. Miss Leet every now and then gives
a dinner to enliven things a little. Noth-
ing can be more charming than those func-
tions. On two occasions I have had the
pleasure to be "the speaker of the even-
ing." It was delightful to notice that every
historic or literary allusion was fully reg-
istered, and that when I was asked to sub-
stitute my native French for my adopted
English not a single nuance seemed to be
missed. Clearly those American girls go
home with two souls instead of one.

Meanwhile the French people in the
vicinity of Reid Hall are conscious of a
perfect blending of charm and seriousness,
and of happiness far superior to mere good
times. It is a great gain. When comfort
is not insolent it teaches elegance. As for
co-operation it can never be shown enough
to my compatriots. Thev cannot pass the
rue de Chevreuse without beina; conscious
of both and of many other excellent things
into the bargain. I assure you Reid Hall
may be a blessing for Smith College or
Delaware University, but it is an even
greater one for Paris.

Sweet Briar College

A Merry Christmas in Peiping, China

By DoNNELL Dunbar Avirett Annan, ex '13

(Editor's Note — Mrs. Annan was spending the winter in Peiping with Mr. and JNIrs. Hariy A.
Franck at the time this article was written. Mr. Franck, known as the vagabond author, was at
that time gathering the material for his volume, "Wanderings in North China.")

chapel of the Church of England set among
ancient trees deep within the walled gar-
dens of the British Legation. The old
familiar Christmas carols struck a soul-
satisfying note and many a wanderer was
for the moment carried by their lovely
melodies to a far distant home.

"t speak very honorably to wish you
I Merry Christmas and a Prosperous
•^ New Year." Wang makes a bow.
At Christmas Eve dinner this greeting in
red Chinese characters on the frosty white
icing of a delectable cake, was presented
to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Franck and myself
by our little Chinese cook who momentarily
usurped the duties of the number 1 boy and
brought his handiwork himself from the
kitchen into the dining room of the simple
one-court Chinese dwelling that, hugging
close to the East Tartar Wall, was our
home in Peiping. After dinner we were
trimming a tree for Harry, junior, aged
three, when in came our entire retinue of
servants, the "boy", the cook, the coolie,
the rickshaw men and the "ama", each
with hands full of gay-colored noisy
Chinese toys and trinkets purchased with
their sparse coppers for "Ha-li" to whom
they were devoted. We, in turn, "made
our bow" in terms of Mexican silver dol-
lars and Christmas in old Peiping got off
to a great start.

We began Christmas Day at an early
hour amidst the homey bustling excitement
that occupies the attention of any American
household, especially one that houses a
male embryonic citizen of Uncle Sam's
domain, whether it be east or west of Suez.
It seemed only fitting that we further main-
tain tradition by attending service in our
own church. To our surprise we found our
rickshaws festive with wreaths and tiny
bells put there overnight by our faithful
"boys" who ever ready and smiling had
pulled us for uncounted miles. This morn-
ing with an air of especial ceremony they
placed our feet in the velvet carriage slip-
pers, tucked the great fur robe around each
one, stepped eagerly between the shafts and
amid jangling bells and gay chatter whisked
us rapidly through the maze of gray-walled
"hutungs" that end suddenly in great Hata-
men street and the Legation Quarter. After
the garish delapidated Chinese temples with
their Gods in the forms of painted Demons
it was a joy to enter the sanctity of the

A Steeplechase Race in the Afternoon

Then with the virtuous feeling of duty
pleasantly performed we plunged into the
gala events that the gay sophisticated for-
eign colony of Peiping had planned for
Christmas celebration. Deserting our rick-
shaws for a more rapid but less dependable
conveyance from Detroit, we drove to Pao
Ma Chang, the race course some distance
from the city. This good mile track partly
encircled by a canal fringed with drooping
willow trees is the scene of splendid spring
and fall meets but today all interest was
centered in the gray brick club house where
a tremendous "tiff en" party was on hand;
"tiifen" being a word borrowed from India
used for the noon day meal throughout the
east. Most of the guests were in riding
clothes, the cross country steeplechase for
the Master's Cup being on for the after-
noon. Sufficiently well fortified by food
and cheering cup we mounted our small
lean Mongolian horses brought from the
city by the "mafoos" or Chinese grooms
and, braving the bitter north wind that
roared down from the Gobi desert plateau,
rode from one strategic place to another
to watch the race. The course was a point
to point over a six and a half-mile well
flagged course. Some of the jumps were
natural mud walls but most were hurdles
of "kaoliang", a species of coarse corn.
Ten men faced the starter. The American
favorite was Roy Chapman Andrews on
"Squire", his pet pony. The famous ex-
plorer in his green suede riding suit and
boots with cap and feather set at a rakish
angle, made as handsome a Robin Hood
as one could hope to see. The favorite in
the betting was the Commandant of the
British Guard, Colonel Campbell-Order

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mounted on '"Luck)' Strike". The other
entrants, British and American, were all
excellent riders. As an old English general
said, it ivas anyone's race, the intelligent
rider on a handy pony having as good a
chance as the hell-for-leather, lichety-split
thruster.

All ten got off to a great start. Several
went down at the difficult fourth jump.
Here the course came out of the canal bed
it had been following into the open where
not only the mud walls and kaoliang jumps
were to be negotiated but sunken roads
offered unknown dangers. At one of these
Andrews in endeavoring to pull "Squire"
up cannoned into a stone boundary post
and came a terrific cropper. Certain that
our bets were lost we rode hard over a
short cut to watch the finish. Hundreds
of Chinese and foreigners, mounted and
dismounted, lined the bank of the Canal
near the race track anxiously scanning the
horizon for the dust of galloping ponies.
Three ponies came in view. Surely that
was "Squire" out in front. "Squire",
larger than most Mongolian ponies, was
conspicuous. Yes! No! Yes — it is
"Squire" and her gallant rider Roy
Chapman Andrews — in first at the finish.
Colonel Campbell-Orde only three lengths
behind, he. too, having had a spill. Sir
Ronald Mcleary, the British Minister, pre-
sented the Master's Cup then and there to
the winner — a rather dishevelled capless
Robin Hood covered with Chinese dust and
kaoliang straw as well as with glory and
honor.

The north wind blew colder. We all
motored quickly back to the city to the
Peiping Club where the Master's Cup was
filled and emptied many times. The tennis
court in die hollow square around which
the Club was built had been converted into
a skating rink, enclosed and roofed with
a "peng" of straw mats. Here a skating
contest was in progress. The American
and British might distinguish themselves
on horses but on skates the honors went
to the Russian and Dutch contestants who
performed in professional manner. The
Chinese "boys" in the red coat liverv of
the Club passed trays of hot cherry brandy
to the onlookers while within the Club
bowls of egg-noa: were served as a special
compliment to the American guests.

Fancy Dress Ball at Night

All this was great fun but we must get
ready for the annual social event, the
Christmas night dinner and ball given by
Lady Bredon, a Virginia woman of great
charm who, married to i.n Englishman long
departed this life, is the Empress Dowager
of Peiping society. Apparently her origi-
nalitv and inventiveness know no limit for
each party was strikingly different, so the
tale was told. Three little words, "Fancy
Foot Dress" on this years invitation caused
great consternation and scurrying hither
and yon to Chinese markets and fairs,
hasty letters to Japan, and cables to Ma-
nila. Friends throughout the Orient were
called upon to help make feet fancy for
Lady Bredon's ball. Although my foot,
size one and a half, has always been a
trouble and expense to shoe, never had
such an emergency arisen. I could find
nothing to wear. The day before Christ-
mas I was wandering in despair through
the stalls of a market when my eye was
caught by a tiny artificial tree not over
three inches high. Inspiration came. I
bought two of the diminutive trees and
some minute trimmings and candles, had
them firmly sewed on the toes of my silver
slippers, and thus stepped gingerly and
fancifully to the ball.

Kipling's "Boots, boots, boots" was the
leit motif of the party as the majority of
the men wore one or another of the nu-
merous types of Russian and Mongolian
boots. The American diplomatic head
came in Dutch wooden sabots, the Dutch
minister in Indian moccasins. An attache
of the British Legation with unusually
small feet wore the high heeled slippers
of the wife of the French minister. Several
secretaries from the Mexican Legation
stamped around in riding boots from our
own Wild West. Some guests were still on
skates. Two American bachelors clanked
in with balls and chains intertwined around
their ankles, a placard across their backs
proclaiming. "We'll try anything once —
This is the ONCE."

The ladies were no less diverse in their
choice of foot gear. Lady Bredon, natu-
rally a tall woman, towered majestically
over everyone on her Manchu shoes with
stilt-like heels several inches high. The

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Sweet Briar College

From the Athletic Department

THE Sweet Briar varsity hockey team
is to be congratulated on winning
both of the inter-collegiate matches
that it played this fall. They won the
opening game with a 5-1 victory over the
State Teachers' College at Harrisonburg.
The team won its second victory with a
score of 2-1 against the College of Wil-
liam and Mary. This game was played
during the Virginia-North Carolina Hockey
Tournament and furnished one of the most
exciting games of the two days of play.

The Virginia-North Carolina Hockey
Tournament was held at the college on
November 11 and 12. The following sent
teams for this tournament: Harrisonburg,
Farmville, Westhampton, Salem College,
William and Mary, The Richmond Club,
and the Washington Club. At the con-
clusion of the tournament four of the

Sweet Briar Varsity Team were chosen
for the Inter-College Team. The four
chosen were: Eleanor Alcott, Helen Han-
son, Nancy Russell and Frances Darden.

Interest in archery continues. Lydia
Goodwyn, '34, won the first place in the
advanced group in the tournament held
November 4, and Martha Harvey, '36,
won in the beginners' group. Both groups
were required to shoot a Columbia round.

Basketball practice is well under way
and the varsity team looks more promising
than ever. All of the girls who played in
the final game last year are back and much
interest has been shown, by the new girls,
to try out. The Varsity schedule is as
follows: February 11, Farmville at the
college; February 18, The College of Wil-
liam and Mary at Williamsburg, and Feb-
ruary 25, Westhampton at Sweet Briar.

The Garth-Estill Collection

Mrs. W. F. Garth of Huntsville, Ala-
bama, recently added to the collection of
artifacts of the Mound Builders which she
gave to the college last June. The collec-
tion is given as a good-will offering for
Mrs. Garth's daughter, Maria, now Mrs.
Francis Marion Inge, who was a former
student at Sweet Briar and for her grand-
daughter, Alice Estill, who is a member of

the class of 1934.

Although a gift to the college, the col-
lection will be housed in the library. The
recent addition includes various pieces
under the heading of flint objects and con-
tains bevels, disioidal stones, axes, drills,
arrow points, bird points, flint tools, peddle
hammers, and arrow heads from Alabama,
Western Kentucky, and Southern Illinois.

We Point With Pride To

Eugenia Griffin Burnett, '10, alumnae
member of the Board of Overseers, who
presided so graciously at the exercises on
Founders' Day morning in the Chapel.

A check, just received, for two hundred
dollars from the Alumnae Club of Indiana
for their 1933 contribution to the Asso-
ciation.

Elkanah East Taylor, one of the original
"36", who is one of the nineteen women

from the State of Virginia to be included
in the 1933 edition of "Who's Who".

The New York Alumnae Club, which has
been asked to serve on the Club Division
of the Gibson Emergency Unemployment
Relief Committee of which Mrs. August
Belmont is general chairman and Mrs. Paul
Chapin is division chairman.

The telegrams and letters, numbering
more than fifty, of congratulation on the
October number of the Alumnae News.

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To the Left—

The Author with Her
Troupe.

Below—
The Glohe Theatre.

The Globe Theatre

An Adventure in Marionettes

By Elizabeth Carrington EgclestO-N. '19

THE roots of The Globe Theatre prob-
ably strike back twenty years to a
great shadow)' attic with a red-cur-
tained stage at its farthest end. There we
played Bluebeard and sundry melodramas,
and were only deterred b)' grown-up
authority from producing Shakespeare's
greater tragedies.

The idea of puppets came in the summer
of '25. A cousin and I were sitting in the
bow window of a little stone inn in the
North of Wales. The empty village green
outside suddenly swarmed with children.
Thev tumbled and milled about and chat-
tered in Welsh until it seemed some pleas-
ant bedlam had come about. The Pied
Piper of the occasion was a little calico-
covered booth on two legs, which came to
rest just opposite us. There was a tiny
curtain that pulled, and with a squeaky
nasal voice, Mr. Punch appeared and went
through his antics. However, we soon for-
got him in watching the faces of the spell-
bound children. I made a resolve. "That
is what I am going to do when I get home."
By a sea-coal fire in a thatched farm
house on the Devonshire coast, another
root struck in. Amey Smyth and I were
ending our holidays there in late Septem-
ber, and while she dug away at Browning,
I worked over a marionette play "just to
have it ready."

In Oxford that winter, she and I put-
tered with a wooden box and several cheap

dolls. Our plan was to rig up a tiny show,
put it on the handlebars of our bicycles
and peddle around to the neighboring vil-
lages. Whether the local authorities would
have stood it or not, was never known, for
the result was a dismal failure and never
saw the light of day.

Five years later, here in Hampden-Syd-
ney, a crony, Asa D. Watkins, aged tliir-
teen, said wistfully, "I made a little card-
board stage, but it isn't much good. Some-
day I want a real stage of my own."

"We'll have a marionette show now,"
said I, so we swore by the Nine Gods, and
this was the beginning of our theatre.

We got a grocery box, a few old dolls,
and some Christmas tree lights and went
to work. The result was flat failure. One
doll did wiggle an arm, but even she
whirled so drunkenly that she was impos-
sible. We figured that thev weren't heavy
enough, so we bought some cheap celluloid
dolls, and stuffed their arms and legs with
gravel. We had failure after failure.
Finally an absurd Hansel and Grethel
were evolved, but they were patently five
and ten cent store products, and hopped
like frogs. Wynken, Blynken and Nod
seemed an ideal venture, as their one re-
quirement was to ride in a shoe, but a

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To the Left —

The Court Scene from
Magic."

■Black

Below —
Jim Hawkins and Long John
Silver, two of Stevenson's
famous characters from
"Treasure Island."

charitable mother gave away the shoe on
the eve of the performance, so that, too,
perished. All this covered weeks of pa-
tient experiment which seemed to lead no-
where.

Finally it occurred to me to see what
could be done with a cake of soap, and
the little woman who evolved herself there-
from caused triumph and jubilation to our
weary hearts. Her hands and feet were
moulded from wax, her body was a lump
of soap covered with a bit of old stocking,
and her little soap head had a most know-
ing air. From that time on, nothing could
stop us.

It was most exciting. We never quite
knew what would evolve, but after much
toil, a delightful fairy-tale creature would
materialize from most unlikely ingredients.
A witch came next, possessed from the first
by the Evil One, with a diabolical penchant
for getting her strings tangled, and a night-
marish ability to dance to the Fire-Music
from Die Walkure. Then came a princess,
w'ith long golden hair; a most haughty
queen, who devastated us all by her aris-
tocracy; a dragon; a gnome: a ^-ulga^ little
dancing girl; and a jester with a delicious
touch of pathos. The prince, dark and
romantic, was stubbornly stiff-legged de-
spite hours of toilsome operations. The
king would never materialize, thouah we
carved and moulded for several weeks, so
we had him off at the wars when the plav
took place.

The stage was a jov, the nicest we've
made — for marionettes and their belong-
ings have distinct personalities and are not
over-biddable. For footlights we used

Christmas tree lights, for a platform on
which to stand, the Watkins" study table.
( It has never quite recovered its pristine
freshness.) The discarded landscapes of
an artist parent were our first scenery.

In the beginning, most of the work had
been done in conjunction with Asa Wat-
kins, who gave every moment out of school
hours to making crosspieces, moulding
wax, and experimenting with stage effects.
His grandmother, Mrs. Orrin Day, was
court costumer, and from minute scraps,
fashioned little costumes gay and full of
personality. By this time there was a
staunch following of youngsters who la-
boured too, Judy Watkins, Margaret Gail-
lard, Henry Massey, Spencer Wilson,
George Walker and Alexander Williams.

At last, the marionettes being ready for
a performance, and a rehearsal declared,
someone discovered that we hadn't a play.
The one we had planned called emphati-
cally for a king, and the king hadn't come
into being. But that difiicultv was soon
brushed aside and '"Black Magic " w'as
sketched to fit the existing puppets. The
youngsters made up their own dialogue as
they w-ent along.

The long-toiled-for performance took
place in Professor Watkins' study. The

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stage was on a stand, and the puppeteers
stood behind it on the atore-mentioned
study table. The whole was curtained off
with old sheets, but we had an elegant
draw curtain of green rep that worked
with astonishing efficiency. Everyone in
the village turned out, from the dean of
the college to the plumpest three-year-old.
The audience was hilarious, the applause
uproarous. ^Margaret fell off the table,
but as she didn't break her leg. tlimgs went
merrilv on. \^ hen the prince and princess
walked off to the wedding march from
Lohengrin, we knew we had scored a suc-
cess and puppets had arrived in Hampden-
Sydney to stay.

Late that spring, having overflowed from
the Watkins' study into the library, parlor,
bedrooms, sleeping porch and kitchen of
the Eggleston home, Mrs. Eggleston in
desperation suggested that we move into
her unused garage. Not a moment was
allowed for recantation. A negro man, a
carpenter, brooms, whitewash pails and ex-
cited puppeteers transformed the place in
record time. One puppeteer, daubed with
whitewash, blissfully paused in the midst
of operations to say, "Oh Elizabeth, this
reminds me so much of Shakespeare's
Globe Theatre!" And thus it was named.

That summer we rested from our labors,
but the rats did not. On reopening the
theatre in September, we found only the
sad little chewed corpses of our Black
Magic troupe — our first and best-loved
puppets.

After the funeral we set to work with
renewed zest, this time on a set of cloth
animals for Kipling's "The Elephant's
Child.' One by one they emerged from
their puppet jungle of pre-existence, and
by Hallowe'en we were ready for the play.
There was one drawback. The Globe only
seated seventeen people. Nothing daunted,
we hired a carpenter, embezzled some old
college lumber, and by the night of the
performance had a theatre that seats fifty
grown-ups or sixty children. On the day
of the play there was a frantic puppeteer
on the telephone, "Elizabeth, don't be ner-
vous, but we've forgotten the Kolokolo
bird." It was true, but ingenuity produced
him and the play was given.

The next week we repeated it for the
benefit of the colored folks of the com-
munity. They were a most interesting
audience to play to, and did not miss a
chuckle.

By this time the weather was getting
cold, but the Wilsons contributed a stove,
so the work went on. Now we were in
deadly earnest. "We w^ere going to make
them by Tony Sarg's method" — and make
them we did. though it took every Saturday
night from November imtil May to create
the seventeen marionettes necessary for
Treasure Island. These have heads of
papier mache, hands of wire, bound with
adhesive tape, legs of plaster, shoulder

Top —

The Queen and the Princess
in "Black Magic."

To the Right—
A scene from
Island."

"Treasure

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and hip pieces of wood, and hollow bodies
of unbleached muslin. We proceeded, not
by the trial and error method, but exclu-
sively by the error method it seemed to us.
We took to pieces, and did over, our re-
spective jobs until it seemed flesh would
bear it no longer. But at last they were
all ready, Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver,
Israel Hands, Billy Bones and the rest of
the crew. The boys painted the scenery
for this play, using ordinary five-and-ten-
cent-store house paint on unbleached mus-
lin. The properties were fascinating to
make. Our masterpiece is the steering
wheel which Jim Hawkins can turn round
and round.

Treasure Island had to be dramatized
especially for marionettes, but this was a
pleasant piece of work. Then came the
grim necessity for speaking distinctly.
The decree was "no mumbling, no South-
ern slurring, and no shouting". So each
puppeteer, having learned his part, would
be placed at one end of the dining room.
I, at the opposite side of the house, would
hold the script. And though I blush to
confess to such brutal tactics, I will have
to admit I made each puppeteer hold a
large sofa-cushion in front of his face and
talk into it. If each syllable was clear to
me two rooms away, well and good, other-
wise we repeated it until it was. There
was a consonant chart too, hopefully de-
signed to correct the more glaring defects
of Southern speech, but it hardly received
enthusiastic support. In fact it seemed the
better part of valor to drop the matter.

Until school was out, the practices were
more or less desultory. But as soon as
the youngsters were free, there was a week
of hard practice, two hours, morning and
night. Ere this, I fell by the wayside, so
Mrs. David Wilson brought the play to
completion.

Its opening night was a great success.
As usual, the entire village turned out.
There was an orchestra consisting of a
guitar, a mouth organ, and a jew's-harp:
the ushers and box-office officials were,
according to our custom, children too
young to belong to the club; and a small
traffic cop saw to it that there was no
confusion in parking. We've given it quite
a few times since, but never with the thrill
of that first night.

Another Scene from "Treasure Island"

In the summer the Club scattered on
various trips. In spite of this, a good bit
of quiet experimenting was done in the
Globe workroom on working out a stage
and simple puppets that very small chil-
dren could manage. These are little rigid
figures pushed on and off by stiff wires,
somewhat in the German tradition.

In the late summer, a group of children
in the grades, who had been rather wistful
hangers-on, formed themselves into a Junior
club. In a month or so, they produced
Jack and the Beanstalk with cloth mario-
nettes. This play was coached by Asa D.
Watkins, the leader of the Senior Puppet-
eers. Perhaps in the spring an even young-
er group may be launched on its dramatic
career.

To sum up the matter, we haven't a great
deal to show for nearly two years of hard
and patient work. Our assets consist of a
dilapidated, but delightful little theatre;
several sets of crude but lively mario-
nettes; a good bit of skill gained with our
fingers; and the memory of innumerable
hilarities. We've cooked amazingly un-
hygienic suppers out there; we've often
ended the evening with ghost stories so
gruesome, everyone was afraid to go home;
and aside from our regular plays, we've
had numerous impromptu and very ribald
performances.

The most interesting feature of the proj-
ect is that a group of busy High School
students have found time to carry it out.
The scheme has required patience, per-
sistence and a good deal of hard work.
It has often taken careful planning and
sacrifice to fit marionettes into the crowded

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Alumnae News

The Objectives of Fund Raising

(Editor's Note — Objectives of Fund Raising is the second of a series of articles on this inter-
esting subject appearing in the Alumnae News each issue during the coming year. This article -was

written by Herbert F. Taylor, Alumni Secretary,
part here.)

AMERICAN college alumni are gen-
erous contributors, but they insist
upon knowing the objects for which
their gifts are solicited. The needs of
various institutions differ widely. Conse-
quently there is much diversity in the ob-
jectives established for the raising of an-
nual alumni funds. The objectives dis-
closed by the survey are grouped in this
chapter under general classifications for
comparative purposes.

1. Alumni Association Operations. The
operating expenses of the alumni associa-
tion are financed, in whole or in part, from
gifts to the alumni fund at many institu-
tions. A few institutions, notably Berea,
Dayton, Haverford, MacMurray, Michigan
State, Rollins, and Rutgers, use the entire
income for association maintenance.

Other institutions deduct from the annual
income the amount required for operating
expenses and contribute the balance to the
institution for unrestricted or designated
purposes.

2. Unrestricted Gifts. The objective of
several alumni funds is to secure unre-
stricted gifts to be used for the current
expense budget of the institution.

Among the institutions that receive a
portion and in most cases a large portion
of the net alumni fund income for current
uses are: Amherst, Baldwin-Wallace, Bates,
Beloit, Bowdoin, Brown, Colgate, Colum-
bia, Cornell, Creighton, Goucher, Heidel-
berg, Knox, Lafayette, Lawrenceville, Mari-
etta, Mount Holyoke, New York University,
North Carolina, Pembroke, Radcliffe, Ran-
dolph-Macon, Smith, Stevens, Tufts, Vas-
sar, Wellesley, and Worcester. In some of
these cases the use to be made of the appro-
priation is designated or suggested.

3. Capital Fund Gifts. Although most
annual alumni funds are collected for cur-
rent use, there are a few organizations that
seek only capital gifts. Others operate on
the dual basis of collecting gifts for income
and gifts for endowment. Still others ap-

^ orcester Polytechnic Institute, and is printed in

propriate a portion of the net income for
a principal fund.

Those that collect gifts both for current
uses and for capital funds are: Bowdoin,
Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Hobart, Law-
renceville, Mount Holyoke, New York
University, North Carolina, Northwestern,
Smith, Wellesley. and Yale.

Among institutions at w'hich a portion of
the annual income is appropriated to a
reserve or principal fund are: Bates, Buck-
nell, Knox, Vassar, Worcester, and Yale.

4. Special Objectives. Assistance for
students and the auginenting of faculty
income are popular objectives. Brown,
Chicago, Colgate, Kenyon, Mount Holyoke,
New York University, Northwestern, Penn-
sylvania, Phillips Exeter, Smith, Vassar,
Wellesley, Wesleyan", Williams, Wooster,
and Worcester, all list among their specific
objectives the securing of funds, current
or capital, for professorships, faculty sal-
ary increases, or similar projects.

Funds for fellowships, scholarships or
student loans are also sought.

Portions of the annual alumni fund are
used for promoting student activities at
Bates, Marietta. Stevens, and Wesleyan.

Lectureships, libraries, research, or other
similar features of the institution are as-
sisted by annual gifts at Bates, Brooklyn,
Brown, Chicago, Cornell, Lehigh, Mount
Holyoke, New York University, North-
western, Randolph-Macon, Vassar, and
Wooster.

Buildings, equipment, and campus im-
provements are sought by Baldwin-Wallace,
Boston LTniversity. Brooklyn, Cornell, Hei-
delberg, Lehigh. Marietta, Mount Holyoke,
North Dakota, Radcliffe, Smith, Tufts, and
Wellesley.

Some of the other fund raising organi-
zations do not report these special projects
as objectives, liut announce tliem in their
fund publicity as worthy of alumni sup-
port.

*Wherever Wesleyan
Connecticut.

mentioned the reference is to Wesleyan University at Middletown,

Sweet Briar College

Gail Shepard, '33, is the
holder of the Manson
Memorial Scholarship for
1932-1933.

Irving Chidnoff

My Year in France

By Gail Shepard, '33

OH, you who have not lived a year
in France, in a real French home,
and who have not studied about
France in France, cannot know what this
last year has meant to me! It is a part
of me now. But it meant nothing more
than a faraway dream to me while I was
planning to go. And even after we were
well established at Nancy we had felt for
so long that Europe was only a dream,
that we could hardly realize there was an
ordinary cement sidewalk under our feet.
For we did go to Nancy first, to spend
three months getting acquainted with the
customs and language of our adopted land.
Nancy is a quiet provincial town in the
foothills of the Vosges, in Lorraine. It
was, during the reign of Louis XV the
capital of King Stanislas Leczinski, who
organized and beautified the city, giving
it its lovely Place Stanislas and Place de
la Carriere. The Universitv there is third

best in France (after Paris and Lyons),
and offers summer comses to foreign stu-
dents. And a quiet provincial town offers
no distractions to those who wish to study.
We rather gloated over having worked
harder than ever before in our lives.
After all, though that part of it was a
nightmare, we were all in the same boat
so nobody could complain.

Perhaps I have not been very clear
about who "we" were. There were ninety
of us from many different American col-
leges, enrolled as members of the L'niver-
sity of Delaware Foreign Study Group.
The University of Delaware provided us
with counselors, directors, directresses, and
tutors, supervised our study, arranged our
courses, managed our financial affairs, or-
ganized dances, teas, picnics, excursions
to the surrounding places of interest, and
placed us by twos in French homes. In
fact I would rather have been the hardest-
working Czechoslavakian student in Nancy
than anv member of the Delaware staff.
The efficiency of their system, however, was
something to be wondered at.

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The simple, comfortable people with
whom we lived made us feel they had a
real affection for us, an affection which
we certainly returned. The darling widow
and her daughter in whose house I was,
fed me to bursting, and gave me a hot
water bottle every night. And at meals,
^\'hich lasted for hours, we would talk of
everything in the world. It was through
their eyes that I first began to see France.
And I learned another thing, that the
French are human beings like the rest of
us. The}- have the same loves and hates,
the same problems as we, and French girls
dream the same dreams American girls do.
Only they have, because they are an old
nation and a Catholic nation, a security
and inner peace, which I, among them, felt
and still feel able to share, but which I
lose when I let in the doubts Americans
are assailed with. I do not mean that the
French have no doubts, no questions, but
that in facing them they can put their
backs to a wall of faith and tradition.
This, most Americans have not, as yet.
And our traditional culture is preserved
by so very few. The past, to the French,
is half their life. I could rot mention
Nancy without telling you of Stanislas.

These things, to me, are the superiority
of the French, in spite of their post-war
disquietude. I mav be descending from
the sublime to the ridiculous when I say
I missed the superiority of American break-
fasts, bathtubs, and sober wall-paper!

While we ^vere in Nancy we made, as I
said, several trips: to Domremy, to Toul,
to Metz, to Verdim and the battlefields.
We in far away vVmerica who did not see
the war cannot know, will never under-
stand, what the war did to France and to
the soul of her people. The land in the
east is untillable for miles and miles, being
full of shells, perhaps unexploded. Here
was the village of Fluery and we see not
a single stone.

One of our trips was to the Alps, for
two weeks. As long as I live I will not
forget the beauty of the mountain-girt
valley of Grenoble, threaded by a silver
river — all spread before us from the ridge
of the Grande Chartreuse. And then, at
Chamonix, we climbed the Mer de Glace
where beloved M. Perrichon had his acci-
dent.

On the first of November we went to
Paris. How different the France of the
capitol from the France of provincial Lor-
raine! Paris which is Montmartre and
passy — Paris of the rue de Rivoli and the
rue St. Jacques, of Notre-Dame, the Lou\Te,
the Luxembourg, all at once. How I loved
its tiny crooked streets and toppling chim-
neys, its churches, museums and theatres,
its classic gardens and vistas and boule-
vards lined with elegant shops and box-
wood screened cafes!

I am utterly bewildered as to how to tell
you of my life there — it was so full, from
day to day. Three of us were very fortu-
nate in living with a charming family, well-
born, of an old Breton house. They had
come to Paris during the war, and had a
beautiful apartment in the Quartier de 1'
Europe. Again we were treated as the
daughters of the house. Their friends were
our friends. We were asked everywhere
they went, to teas, and soirees and balls
at the Circle de Paris and the Circle des
Provinces Francaises. We were also intro-
duced into some very lovely homes. But
again it was the long conversations we had
that meant most to me. At last, through
the eyes of the beloved friends, we began
to see "le vrai visage de la France."

As different as was the social life of
Paris from that of Nancy was the study at
the Sorbonne from the twenty-five hour-a-
week schedule of grammar, literature, art
and history of our Nancy days. The
courses were entirely lecture courses, cours
de Civilization given for foreign students,
which we attended as we saw fit. Each
course was credited according to the re-
sults of the final examinations, one oral
and one written. Our supplementary read-
ing was guided by the group staff. Every
two weeks we wrote a dissertation fa small
term paper!! on some subject related to
our major course. We also wrote weekly
compositions for practice in current French,
and had private lessons in phonetics or
grammar, or discussion of a play seen
during the week. Besides these weekly
plays, the group sometimes attended the
opera or the productions of the Comedie
Francaise.

At Christmas we had a number of
special treats — dances and plays and a

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Sweet Briar College

Dividends Preferred

By An Anonymous Friend

THE recent meeting of the country's
educators at what was called the Con-
ference of Universities on the Obliga-
tion of Universities to the Social Order
brought to my door several pertinent dis-
cussions and recalled to my mind a remark
of a college professor, made quite casually
to his class a decade ago. It had startled
me then, but because time had seemed to
prove his prophecy a false one I had put
it quite out of my mind. It came back to
me with new meaning when I thought of
the college problems discussed at the con-
ference and the particular problems of
students whom college has not helped to
make an adjustment to the social order in
M'hich they now find themselves.

The college professor had said, "There
will come a time when the college of lib-
eral arts, organized as it is now in the
United States, will have to justify its ex-
istence." Even then on a cold morning
when first periods began at eight o'clock
and one was apt to doze lightly over prin-
ciples of education or theories of govern-
ment this was a back-straightening remark.
Yet it was flung at us without comment
and given no support by further explana-
tion. There it stood and for these many
years it has remained an enigma to those
of us who had thought that those years
between seventeen and twenty-one could
best be regulated and enlarged by ex-
periences which only a college training
offered. I am not sure that the question
of preparation for the adjustment to the
present social order existed so clearly in
our minds, but there was an implicit be-
lief in the rightness of our decision to
undergo the rigors of a college training.
But now that adjustment to the social
order was recognized by the conference as
one of the demands put upon the modern
college and university yet denied as an
accomplishment bv several disappointed
graduates, I was led to consider the social
movements within the past decade which
had put educational institutions on the de-
fensive, so to speak, in the minds of these
youns graduates. I was bound also to
consider with them the recent great move-
ment of hundreds of youths toward col-

lege. Like all movements, this one was
made up of individuals with varied aims.
But rich and poor, earnest and frivolous,
capable and ill-equipped, all sought their
varied ends by one means. This move-
ment had grown in pace, numbers, and
importance. But today I was told that
with competition cutting wide swathes in
the college-trained, white-collared group,
many consider this "panacea for adjust-
ment to the social order a complete blank."
The social order has changed, and college
should help the student prepare himself
to meet this increasing competition. The
conference recognized this new challenge,
they said, and quoted President Angell
who had agreed that "the university is
an integral part of the society it serves
and it could not, if it would, be oblivious
to the necessities of that social order."
Yet tlie numbers of jobless college men
and women today would seem to belie the
eff'ectiveness of the college, they concluded
bitterly.

Then I took up the cudgel, still hugging
that implicit belief which in the face of
this challenge had become a bit more ar-
ticulate in my mind. Are you not all
asking too much of the college of liberal
arts? I began. In the first place, all
movements cause unhappiness because they
foster too many hopes. The pioneer move-
ment caused untold unhappiness because
those who participated thought it would
cure too many ills and beget too many
fortunes. You come to the college asking
the liberty to rove among treasures, to
know much of the best that has been said
and thought, to become aware of new ideas
and problems. The college of liberal arts
has never professed to offer more than a
training of the intellect and the joy that
accrues from that training. It must justify
its existence by helping you to understand
this new social order. It must show you
how to think on the new problems, how
to become internationally-minded. But to
expect more than this is to expect some-
thing which the college does not profess
to offer. It is to attach importance to all
of the so-called aims of a college, many
of which the college never wished or ad-
mitted.

That. I say, was my rejoinder when re-
cently I was challenged for making an in-

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vestment which today is paying so few
dividends to many young investors.

Then facts and figures were arrayed
against me before I could remonstrate fur-
ther. The number of college-bred office
boys and waffle-demonstrator college girls
is increasing every year, I was told. The
fields always recognized as woman's by
right are saturated, and, quoting directly
from the personnel office of a large wo-
man's college, I was further informed
"that there are practically no paid posi-
tions, teaching or otherwise, open to the
graduate who possesses only an A. B."

If then, I was further pursued, the train-
ing offered by the college is only back-
ground needing a professional training, to
complete one's usefulness, then does not
the college feel the necessity of justifying
its existence? Familiar words again; but
I was more alert than that morning a
decade ago and I replied to my assailants
again by definitely asking if any college
had ever guaranteed a job to any one of
its graduates.

Eighty years ago in England, twenty
years after co-education was first adopted
by an American college, this same question
was considered by a great teacher who
came to this conclusion. "If a practical
end must be assigned to a university course
I say it is that of training good members
of society. Its art is the art of social life
and its end is fitness for the world."
Through the years men have tried to as-
sign other duties to the university course,
but in the recent conference there was ex-
pressed again the idea of ultimate gains

versus economic fitness which my assail-
ants were stressing. "The university of
the future," the president of a midwestern
university had said, "should develop along
lines of giving high place to spiritual
values. Where the spiritual tends to di-
minish in significance, growth and joy of
life decline. The problem of the univer-
sity of the future, so far as it concerns the
spiritual, will relate in part to apprecia-
tion of relative values, in part to things
which are really fundamental in life of the
moment, and especially to that which con-
nects itself with continuing development."
After all, the education offered by the
college of liberal arts is concerned with
eternal things, or as one writer expressed
it, "the individual must be made by edu-
tation a citizen of a city not made with
hands. That is why, as I see it, we study
history and literature, philosophy and
science — for the relish of eternity in
them." It is a training preparing one for
a "fuller life than anything that inductive
reason can give us," remarked Alfred
Noyes, and the eternal rather than the
temporal values are those developed by
this "useless" knowledge of the college of
liberal arts. And then, to have a last
word in the argument, I added finally,
learning is, if not the whole, at least an
important part of good living, and if
growth and the joy of life are promoted
by the college, I cannot ask that it provide
me with bread and jam as well. That, I
take it, lies outside the province of an in-
stitution which professes to feed only the
spirit and the mind.

The Globe Theatre — An Adventure in Marionettes

(Continued from page 30)

experimenting with dramatic masks

routine of school, athletics and social ac-
tivities. Each one has contributed a gen-
erous share to the welfare of the whole.
But special praise is due its moving spirit,
Asa D. Watkins Junior, who is responsible
for a full half of whatever success we have
achieved. He has captained well an en-
thusiastic, ingenious, unselfish and hard
working marionette team.

Whether this is the end. or the begin-
ning, I do not know. The interests of
youngsters shift overnight, and there is
always the financial difficulty. Already
The Globe is putting out sturdy little
shoots. The group of Juniors has been

for
some weeks. A series of lectures for
grown-ups by notables from the outside
world will begin in November, and a pro-
jected contest of negro quartets, for neigh-
borhood darkies, is scheduled for early
spring. Any one of these may overshadow,
and eventually crowd out marionettes, or
the whole project may die a natural death
before the vear is out. At anv rate. I like
to think that it has made its contribution
of happy memories to a little group, who.
soon enough, must face the realities and
complexities of the jumbled world that
older people have made for them.

Sweet Briar College

The Measure of Milton

Oliver's Secretary

By Dora Neill Raymond

Minton Balch & Co.

Reviewed by Burton Rascoe

(Editor's Note — This review by Mr. Burton Rascoe was written especially for the Sweet Briar
Alumnae Neics and the New York San. Mr. Rascoe is the well-known American critic and former
editor of the Bookman. His new book. "Titans of Literature," is a lively survey of general litera-
ture and includes a particularly interesting chapter on Milton. We wish to take this opportunity to
thank ^Ir. Rascoe for this review of Mrs. Raymond's book.)

WHEN John Milton was in his
fourth year at Cambridge he was
privileged to speak in the public
schools. At the first opportunity he dis-
played that overweening egotism and those
delusions of persecution which were to
characterize him throughout his life, lead-
ing him to write innumerable tracts osten-
sibly on general ideas, but actuall)' full of
personal vilification of his opponents and
assertions of his superior righteousness
and virtue.

On that first occasion, "He told his au-
dience that for almost so many heads as
he beheld he saw visages that bore malice
toward him, men lacking in right reason
and sound judgment, as bare of wisdom
as his nail, who when stripped of their
pretentions nothingness must needs draw
in their horns and creep away like certain
little animals."

All that, mark you, to j^oungsters who
in all probability had never borne malice
toward him, and who must have thought
him a queer fish. Some time afterward
he was made Master of the Routs, for some
inexplicable reason. As a prologue for
the exercises for which he had written the
playlets he declared that "those who re-
frained from laughter did so because they
had bad teeth or feared to vomit forth
their half-gorged dinners."

It did not occur to him that many good
people neglect to laugh because the)' don't
think the show is funny.

After having tried to bully his audience
into laughing at his attempts at humor, he
continued with a long harangue in which
there were "Copious obscenities on the
subject of his fatherhood of the Rout,
references to the hostility he had formerly
experienced and to the worthier work from

which he was reluctantly detained, an ir-
relevant address to the rivers of England."

Nevertlieless, when he was in the au-
dience as spectator he hissed the mispro-
nunciations and the acting of the students
and later wrote a pamphlet, stating that
he was disgusted with the voung divinity
students, "writhing and unboning their
clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest
gestures of Trinculose, buffoons and
bawds."

While yet at school lie boasted so much
of his purity and inveighed so much
against the peccadiloes of his school mates
that he was called "Our Lady of Christ's."
Indeed, "by an overfondling adultation,
he brushed the dew from that chastity, the
rare freshness of which might otherwise
have been admired. For silence in a Gal-
ahad, it has been remarked, is as appro-
priate as in a Launcelot."

I have been quoting from a biography
of rare wit and substance, "Oliver's Secre-
tary." Mrs. Ra)-mond with many a mem-
orable phrase of cutting irony and sar-
donic comment has taken the measure of
Milton as a man, although she has leaned
to the far side of the orthodox received
opinion as to Milton's merits as a poet
and political force. The job of estimating
Milton's character as a man is best left,
I think, to a woman, and Mrs. Ra^Tnond
seems to me to be just the woman for the
job. Milton had the ideas of a Turk (be-
fore the overthrow of Abdul Hamid) in
regard to women. He held that women
should be entirely submissive to the wills
of men: he held a doctrine that practically
denied souls to women and that avowed
man alone to be capable of possessing
divinity and that women should seek di-
vinity only through men.

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Mrs. Raymond cites the several places
where ^Milton advocated Polvgam)' and she
finds it mildly amusing that he should do
this, because his first wife left him within
a few weeks after their marriage: he made
ineffectual love to two women; his last
wife was no more than a rather abused
housekeeper to him, and his daughters
came to hate him because of the tyrannous
wav in which he kept them under sub-
jection and ruined their lives.

"Ruthlessly," writes Mrs. Raymond, "he
bent his household to his will. One daugh-
ter he excused because her speech was hesi-
tant, but Mary and Deborah, for the en-
riching and excitation of his mind, were
made to read to him. One tongue was
enough for a woman, Milton jeered. He
had his daughters trained to read in many
languages but gave them no instruction
in their meanings. Isaiah, Homer and
Ovid, they read to him. pronouncing every
word with clear precision, for his ear was
curious and his temper short. So often in
their manner they served their father that
they retained the memory of long pas-
sages — no word of which they understood.

"Anne Milton could not write and Mary
did so only badlv. A generation later
Debora's daughter told one of his biog-
raphers that ^lilton believed it a practice
unnecessary for women. For lip-service,
the younger two were excellent. They
read to him from the Hebrew, the Syriac,
Greek. Latin, Italian, Spanish and French"
I which he had taught them to pronounce
but had not taught the meanings! . "At
whatever hour he pleased, he rang for
Mary and Mary Powell's daughter came.
and in bad script and poorer spelling took
down the words that justified the ways of
God." He would get them out of bed at
three in the morning to take dictation.

No wonder that when !\Iary was told of
her father's impending marriage by a
maid-servant she said it was no news, but
if she could hear of her father's death that
would be something. He left his daughter
the portion still due him from his first
wife's dowry in an uns:racious will in
which he said, "my 'will and meaning is
that they shall have no other benefit of
my estate . . . they having been very un-
dutiful to me." This after they had slaved
for him day and night I particularly at
night I for years, never permitted to go any-

where or see any one or entertain suitors
or live any" sort of normal life at all!

Mrs. Raymond's biography is the work
of ten years of research" and is the best of
the full length biographies of Milton as
well as the one which has cleared up a
great many of the debated points. Her
research has been particularly in the field
of Milton's political activity which she
shows is rather more extensive than has
been supposed. His political tracts, how-
ever, are in the main long-winded docu-
ments, mostly filled with vilification for
his enemies and glorification of himself.
Mrs. Raymond shows that Milton came to
believe that not only had he achieved
divinity within himself, but that he spoke
with direct inspiration from God. This is
interesting because he rejected the idea of
the Trinity. He would not share the peer-
age with Jesus and the Holy Ghost.

iWilton, indeed, was so completely de-
void of a sense of humor that Mrs. Ray-
mond has rather kindly sport with him
all through this volume. For instance,
Mrs. Raymond briefs Milton's "De Doc-
trina," wherein he contends for the legal-
ity of polygamy, "with somewhat cono-
scious dignity." She writes:

"His masculine dictum was that "every
man should have his own wife to himself,
not that he should have but one wife.' . . .
He gives assurance that the relation man
will bear to each of his wives will be no
less perfect than if he had espoused one
only. The husband will be still one flesh
with each of them. It is cause for wonder
that Milton never had his peace so shaken
by jealousy that he was jarred to better
understanding!"

This Puritan Milton who "painted a
heaven of unending nuptials for a dead
friend, married thrice, and was almost vil-
lainous to his first wife and his three
daughters: and who yet achieved a post-
himious reputation of impeccable middle
class gentility": this sensualist who never-
theless gets hysterical time after time in
his tracts and pamphlets on the superior
quality of his virtue I distinguishing him
from Shakespeare and all other poets that
ever lived, so he savs ) . could solemnly cite
the patriarchs and tlie saints in support of
polygamy and refuse to cite Solomon on
the grounds that "he seems to have ex-
ceeded due bounds."

*Intermittent research.

Sweet Brur College

Mrs. Raymond has discovered quite a
bit about Milton's Italian journey. We
have known all along, of course, that the
only love poems Milton ever wrote 1 1 hope
no one again is going to quote that poem
to his dead wife as a love poem) were
written in Italian and that he said Italian
is the language of love's delight. He wrote
the poems to Leonora Baroni, a singer
whom he heard and met in Rome. She
was the darling of the populace: sonne-
teers celebrated her; she was a friend of
Anne of Austria and of Cardinal Mazarin:
she had a succession of lovers, the last of
whom was Pope Clemente Nono, who sent
to her every day of the last years of her
life a large dish from his own kitchen and
sent her presents three or four times a week.

Milton seemed, writes Mrs. Ravmond,
"an exquisite, too fair, himself, to have
cared till then for women's beauty, so fair,
himself, that had Leonora been a sensuous
queen, satiate of pomp and courtly love-
making, she might have wished to add him.
for grace and purity, to her long list of
lovers. But Leonora was 27 and very sage.
She gloried in the idolatry of her Roman
court. To the visiting young English poet,

she carelessly assigned the welcome task
of inditing praises in Italian, for Italian,
she told him, was language of love's de-
light. Milton gave to her praise higher
than he ever accorded any other woman."

Mrs. Raymond's feeling is that Milton
was, despite the disagreeable aspect of his
character, an important and eloquent ad-
vocate of liberty, liberty of conscience and
of action, a champion of the people
against monarchical and ecclesiastical ty-
ranny and a spirit greater than the many
puerile aspects of the man. He was a lit-
erary genius surely, and in the "Samson
Agonistes" and in the "Areopagitica" he
rose to sublime heights, but he had more
faults and limitations than any other con-
spicuous fis;ure in English literature.

Ten of the eighteen volumes of the first
complete edition of the work of John Mil-
ton have now been published by the Col-
umbia University Press, under the editor-
ship of Frank Allen Patterson. The tenth
volume contains "The History of Britain"
and "A Brief History of Muscovia." These
prose works are really curiosities, but they
should be of special interest to the stu-
dents of Milton's mind.

Three Thoughts on Education

(Contmued from page 6)

My Year in France

(Continued from page 33)

well-equipped and find it easy to choose
both major fields of interest and institu-
tions best fitted to supply their needs.
Wasteful and costly competition and dupli-
cation are not needed. There is required
a unification of education which will em-
brace most of the more important institu-
tions, north and south, in the east and in
the west — a unification which will reflect
and contribute to the brotherhood of man,
bringing together and utilizing the best
efforts of the Orient and Occident, the
Hebrew, and the Anglo-Saxon, the Greek,
the Arab, and the Latin, with the greatest
possible economy of time and effort. Only
a co-ordinated world program in education
will effectively ward off the devastating
effects of rises and falls in culture which
have previously been the order of the cen-
turies.

trip to Chartres. which that day was like
a Christmas card mider its blanket of snow.
A number of the group spent Christmas in
England, and two even went to Biskra in
Algiers. At Easter half of us went to Italy,
the other half to Spain and southern
France, and in May we spent a long week-
end in the chateau country. After our
examinations in July some of the group
traveled, while the rest of us sailed for
America, wild with joy over going home,
but leaving our dear friends in France,
and the country we had learned to love
and tried to understand, with real regret
and a wish to return to them again very
soon.

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Sweet Briar College

A Merry Christmas in Peip-
ing, China

(Continued from page 23)

wife of the Japanese minister appeared in
ceremonial kimona, her little feet pattering
in an elaborate pair of "zori" or straw
sandals. Several ladies chose Japanese
"tabi", the single-toed cotton foot covering
worn in the house, others preferred the
"geta"' or flat wooden shoe elevated b)' two
cross pieces for use in inclement weather.
A lovel)- Spanish lady shuffled across the
room in die primitive leather sandals made
by the Tehuantepec Indians of Mexico.
True to our own island dominions several
Americans selected the Philippine "chine-
las", slippers of gay colored straw woven
and worn by the natives. Mrs. Roy Chap-
man Andrews intrigued everyone by the
clever arrangement of strapping her feet
in such fashion that she was able to totter
along in the small shoes of a bound-foot
Chinese woman.

When all the guests had arrived we were
asked to pass slowly through a room back
of a curtain that hung from the ceiling to
within three feet of the floor on the other
side of which sat the judges. Just before
my entrance I lit the tiny candles on my
Christmas trees and had to walk very care-
fully lest they set fire to my uplifted
chiffon skirt. After a dinner that defies
description the winners were announced,
Mrs. Roy Chapman Andrews the first prize
of die ladies and the ''ball and chain" pair
first amons; the gentlemen.

The ball went on and on, gaier and even
more amusing than were most affairs in
Peiping with such an internationallv at-
tractive guest list. The moon hune low,
dawn was imminent when we called our
rickshaw "bovs" who had been waiting for
hours, hours pleasantly spent, however,
thanks to the kind thoughtfulness of Lady
Bredoii who provided shelter and food for
them.

Jingle bells, Christmas bells, tinkling all
the wav home.

"Han Foo," I asked, "vou have Merry
Christmas?"

"Han Foo catchee Melly Clismas. 'Tai-
tai' catchee Melly Clismas. Ellev-one
catchee Melly Clismas."

Han Foo in his pidgen English stated
the case. Certainly "tai-tai", his mistress,
had caught a Melly Clismas. Everyone it
seemed had caught a Merry Christmas that
year in the old walled Chinese city of
Peiping.

The Mary Helen Cochran
Library, 1931-1932

(Continued from page 20)

Many students are interested in our
experiment and have promised to bring
children's books from home after their
first vacation, and the college \. W. C. A.
and the Sweet Briar News have each con-
tributed S25.00. With these funds we have
bought two more libraries of 25 to 30
books, and as I write, the second library
has been sent out. the third is assembled
and will be sent out shortly. It is still too
early to speak of results, but some good
ones there will surely be. though they come
but slowly. The children are eager to get
the books, but three travelling libraries
can serve but ten schools during the year,
and there are over thirty schools wanting
books. During the summer we plan to
circulate the books with the assistance of
the county women's and girls' clubs, so
that the books will not be idle at any time.
Perhaps later we may add books for adults
to our work, but we would first like to see
that every child has an opportunity to read,
and we would welcome gifts of children's
books from any of the alumnae. We would
like, too. to send pictures to these little
schools, but funds are lacking. Good re-
productions such as Medici prints can be
mounted, varnished and framed without
glass, and these and picture maps would
be valuable to supplement the books we
are sending out.

The 1932 Sophomore Tests

(Continued from page 17)

from the Carnegie Foundation which is
laurelled upon a ten-vear program for
devising these measurements of cultural
growth. We at Sweet Briar are happy to
be represented among the institutions
which are co-operating in this ^tudy.

Alumnae News

Class Personals

ACADEMY

Marguerite Drew Groover is the manager of
the Social Engraving Department of the Drew
Company in Jacksonville.

Marjor)- Lindsay Coon stopped at the college
en route to Virginia Beach where she attended
the annual meeting of the Girl Scouts Council.
She is Commissioner for the Wyoming \' alley
Council for the Girl Scouts.
1910
Reunion 1933.

1911
Reunion 1933.

Maiy Brooke Grant, ex-"ll, has returned to her
home in Denver after spending several months in
New York City.

1912
Reunion 1933.

1913
Reunion 1933.

1914

Bessie Carothers Whayne, ex-'14, spent a week-
end on campus recently. She was visiting her
daughter, Elizabeth, who is a freshman.
1918

Ida Walker Castner has a son, Henn" Walker,
born last Jime.

^largaret McVey drove over from her home in
Richmond to attend the Virginia-North Carolina
Hockey Tournament.

1919

Elizabeth Eggleston is spending some time in
\^ inter Park, Florida.

Frances If'ilde Bose has moved to Beverly Hills,
California, to live.

1920

Helen Beeson ii'as married recently to Mr.
Francis Comer and has moved to Maysville,
Kentucky, to live.

1922

Catherine Shenebon Child stopped at Sweet
Briar for a short visit en route to her home
in Minneapolis. She has been visiting her sister,
Clara Shenebon Boyd, ex-'18, at her home in
New York, and has spent about five weeks tour-
ine the East.

1923

Reunion 1933.

Richie McGuire drove over from Richmond
to attend the Virginia-North Carolina Hockey
Tournament.

1924

Caroline Flynn Eley has a sen, Frederick
Heniy, born August 25.

Phyllis -Millinger. having received her Masters
Degree from the University of Pittsburgh, is now
taking further work at the American Foundation
in Paris.

1925

Gertrude McGiffert MacLennan. accompanied
by her son, has gone to Florida for the winter.

Woodis Finch Roberts, ex-"25, has a son, born
in September.

1926

Helen Finch Halford and Mr. Halford sailed
from London October 26. They plan to spend
several months in this country.

Margaret White is attending business school
in Davenport. She is also taking voice lessons
and spends several hours a week helping in the
clinics.

Kathaiy-n ^Vorris Kelley, accompanied by ^Ir.
Kelley, motored to Sweet Briar during November
to spend a iveek with Miss Glass.

iMarguretta Denman Wilson is working in Best
and Co. in East Orange, New Jersey.

Henrietta Nelson Weston, accompanied by Dr.
Weston, stopped at the college on the return
from her wedding trip in New York. They will
make their home in Columbia, South Carolina.

Margaret Reinhold is in New York where she
is teaching at the Brearley School.

Fannie Nottingham Scott, ex-'26, has a son,
born October 28.

1927

Emily Jones Hodges, accompanied by her hus-
band, spent a week-end on campus recently.

Claire Hamner is assisting in the interior deco-
rating department at Rich's in Atlanta.
1928

Reunion 1933.

Elizabeth Moore Schilling, ex-"28, has a son,
born last June.

1929

Sarah McKee was recently married to Mr.
Wessley Stanger. Margaret Kneedler Fellows was
one of the bridesmaids.

Anne Mason Brent Winn has twins, born re-
cently.

Amelia Woodward is engaged to Maurice
Davier of Montclair, Ne\v' Jersey.

Natalie Sidman was on campus for Founders'
Day.

Hallie Gubelman returned to college to witness
the Virginia-North Carolina Hockey Tournament.

Amelia Mollis Scott has a daughter, boin re-
cently.

Gertrude Prior spent Thanksgiving holidays
with Fanny O'Brian Hettrich, "31, at her home
in Amherst.

Esther Tyler Campbell has a daughter, Esther
MacKenzie, born last July.

Virginia Hodgson was married in Jidy to Rob-
ert Calvin Stuliff. Lieutenant, Junior Grade, U.
S. N., and has moved to Annapolis to live.

Elizabeth Lankford Miles has a son, John
Blanchard HL born July 28.

Mar)' Gochnauer is teaching at the Boonsboro
school in Lynchburg.

Sarah Callison Jamison has moved to Lafayette,
Indiania, to live.

Mildred Bronough Taylor has a son, Moncure
Robinson, born recently.

Hulda Williams Lambert has a son, Barron
Proctor, Jr., born recently.

Margaret Fulton, ex-'29, is now Mrs. William
Garstong.

All
New China
Has Arrived

Sweet Briar in college
or out oF college

to give your friends pleasure, to entertain in a way that makes any occasion de-
lightful and heart warming is no slight accomplishment. Sweet Briar students
and alumnae can be assured success as hostesses with the lovely Sweet Briar
dishes. Fall and winter demand that those comfortable hours about the tea
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Alumnae News

Jane Wilkenson, ex-'29, was married November
4 to Captain Banyard.

Elizabeth Cravens, ex-"29, was married October
18 to Mr. Benjamin Perry McDonald in Louis-
ville, Kentucky.

Margaret Green, ex- '29, is spending some time
in Boston.

Martha Ehle, ex-'29, is no^v Mrs. James Lish.

1930

Norvell Royer Orgain and Mr. Orgain stopped
at the college for a day recently.

Sarah Meadow Little has a son, born recently.

Mai-y Huntington attended Norvell Royers
wedding to Mr. Orgain and stopped at the col-
lege en route to her home in New York.

Agnes Sproul came down to the college to at-
tend the Virginia-North Carolina Hockey Tourna-
ment.

Helen Smith Miller is en route to Panama to
live, where her husband Lieut. Miller has been
stationed.

1931

Jane Muhlberg is working as a volunteer in
the laboratory of the city bacteriologist in Cin-
cinnati.

Jean Cole was on campus for a day recently
en route to Nashville, where she will spend the
winter.

Violet Anderson was married recently to Mr.
Harold Gerhart Groll.

Virginia Quintard and Helen Sim were on
campus for several days en route to visit Natalie
Roberts. They returned to the college in time
for Founders' Day. Helen is doing social ivel-
fare work. Virginia is on the staff of the Junior
League paper in Stamford, Connecticut.

Peronne Whittaker spent the Thanksgiving
week-end on campus.

Elizabeth Clark is taking several courses at
Randolph-Macon in Lynchburg.

Marjory Webb visited Margaret Newton, ex-"31,
for several weeks in October.

Jane Bikle has a position as proof-reader at
the Prior Medical Publishing Company in Hagers-
town. She is taking a secretarial course at night
school.

Virginia Cooke is attending business school.
She has also been doing some Red Cross work
and is helping with dramatics in the high school
in New Philadelphia, Ohio.

Margaret Ferguson has announced her engage-
ment to Mr. Joseph Dexter Bennett, Professor of
English at Sweet Briar.

Charlotte Kent is active in social welfare work
in Richmond.

Natalie Roberts is secretary' of the Roanoke
branch of the American Association of University
Women.

Alice BaiTows, ex-'31, has recently announced
her engagement to Stephen Francisco, of Little
Falls, New Jersey.

Virginia Bristow, ex-'31, has been working in
her father's insurance office in Franklin, Virginia,
ever since she left Siveet Briar.

Mary Burks Saltz, ex-'31, has moved to St.
Petersburg, Florida, to live.

Sweet Brur College

Charlotte Brown Harder, ex-'31, is spending
the winter in New York with her husband and
child.

Rosamund Burt, ex-"31, was graduated from
the University of Kansas in June, 1931. She is
engaged to Cadet John Davis, who attends the
Military Academy at West Point.

Helen Crane, ex-'31, was graduated from The
Chicago Normal School last June and is doing
substitute teaching at her home in Chicago.

Eleanor Faulk, ex- '31, is in her senior year at
the law school of Tulane University in New
Orleans. She is on the Law School Moot Court
Board of Advisers, and is secretary of her class.

Ruth Graham, ex-'31, is working for the Chil-
dren's Protective Society, a community fund
agency, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Sara Harrison, e.x-'31, is making her debut in
Norfolk this winter.

Elizabeth Ray, ex-'31, is doing secretarial work
in a cotton office in Greenwood, Mississippi.

Louise Rogers, ex-'31, has a secretarial position
with the Hoover Company in Cincinnati.

Ruth Schott, ex-'31, was mamed on November
9 to Mr. Hudson McGuire. Rosamund Burt.
ex-'31, was one of her bridesmaids.

Jean Stafford, ex-'31, has been working as a
secretary at the National City Bank in New
York.

Mary Louise Street, ex-'31, has returned from
a three months' trip to California, Oregon, and
Washington, and at present she is working as a
secretaiy in her father's office.

Frances Lee Tollerton Freeman, ex-'31, is liv-
ing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while her hus-
band attends the Harvard Law School.

\ irginia Tabb, ex-'31, was graduated from
Westhampton College, University of Richmond,
in June, 1932. She announced her engagement
on the same day and was mamed on October 6
to Roderick Dunn Moore. They are living in
Richmond.

Harriet Wilson, ex-'31, is working for the
Family Welfare Association in Pittsburgh. She
spent three weeks in September visiting Virginia
Tabb Moore, ex-"31.

Maiy Louise Hudson, ex-'31, has announced
her engagement to Mr. Thurmond Carlyle Lea
of Washington, Virginia.

Martha McCarven Burnett, ex-'31, has a son,
born last July. She has moved to Thomaston,
Georgia, to live.

Helen Davis Watson, ex-'31, is now living in
Annapolis, where her husband is stationed. She
has a daughter, Nancy, born last May.

Hildegard Voelker, ex-'31, was married Decem-
ber 2 to Mr. James Ramsay Gordon Harday of
Redding, Connecticut.

1932

Reunion 1933.

Virginia Bellamy and Mildred Larimer have
been spending some time in New York City.
Virginia stopped at the college en route to her
home in North Carolina.

Virginia Hall has announced her engagement
In Mr. John Van Lindley of Greensboro, North

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Carolina. The wedding will take place December
17 and the bridesmaids will be ^ irginia Bellamy,
Agnes Cleveland. '31, Hazel Stamps. Jane T^hite,
and Julia Daugheity. '34.

Alice ^ eymouth is working in Franklin Simons
in New York.

Betsy Higgins has opened a book shop at her
home in Courtland. New \ork.

Edith Railey is spending some time in New
\ ork City where she is a hostess in a tea room
on Park Avenue.

Sarah Harrison spent several days on campus
recently.

Betty Allen Magruder. Anne McRae and Elea-
nor Mattingly returned to the college for the
^ irginia-North Carolina Hockey Tournament.

Elizabeth Doughtie stopped at the college on
her way to New \ork where she is spending the
w-inter.

Anna Gilbert was the chairman of a rummage
sale held November 11 and 12 by the Sweet Briar
Alumnae Club of \^ ashington, D. C.

Mary Moore Pancake spent a week-end on
campus recently. She plans to attend ^ irginia
Hall's wedding.

Sarah Forsythe is studying art in Cincinnati
at the --^rt Academy.

Stuart Groner is teaching in the 7th and 8th
grades in a private school in Norfolk and is also
taking charge of the sports.

Susie Ella Burnett made her debut on Novem-
ber 22. Marion Malna went to Atlanta to visit
Susie Ella and attend the debut.

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EX-1933

Virginia Brewer is at home now in Cumber-
land, Maryland, after studying art for the past
two years in Boston, Massachusetts.

Anne Brooke will make her debut in Richmond
this winter.

Kathleen Carmichael has returned to her home
in Washington, D. C, after spending some time
in New York City.

Marietta Derby lias a position as a secretarj' on
the eastern shore of Virginia.

Annabel Essary is spending the winter at home
in Washington. D. C.

Caroline Hogue is going to Birmingham South-
em and will make her debut this winter in Bir-
mingham.

Eleanor Kilby is attending the University of
Cincinnati.

Jane Kluttz is studying art in New York City.

Carlene Lathrop will graduate this year from
the University of Kansas.

Katherine LeBlond is attending the University
of Cincinnati.

Henrietta Melton will graduate this year from
the University of South Carolina.

Elizabeth Moore is attending the University of
North Carolina.

Lucy Moulthrop Alexander is living in Lexing-
ton, Kentucky. She was on campus recently ac-
companied by her husband.

Barbara Munson is working at the Bellevue
Hospital and taking a course at New York Uni-
versity.

Helen Nice will make her debut in Birmingham
this winter.

Martha Ellen North is a senior at the Univer-
sity of Missouri.

Lucy Oliver will graduate from the University
of South Carolina this year.

Mary Peters is attending art school in Colum-
bus. Ohio.

Mildred Rahm is attending art school in Kan-
sas City.

Margaret Schwald is a senior at Colorado Uni-
versity.

Jeanette Shambaugh will graduate from Rad-
cliffe this year.

Carroll Slater is attending the University of
South Carolina.

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Sweet Briar College

Alice Smith will graduate from the University
of Missouri this year.

Mary Spalding is at home in Richmond this
winter.

Helen Teriy will graduate from the University
of South Carolina this year.

Lee Tracy is in charge of the personal shop-
ping department at Dunn-Lofts, a large depart-
ment store in Columbus. Ohio.

Augusta Wallace was abroad the past year on
the Delaware Plan and is making her debut this
winter in Louisville, Kentucky.

Anna Willis has moved to Houston and is at-
tending school there.

Mary B. Lankford has moved to \ irginia Beach
to live.

EX-1934

Marjorie Dexter Clark has a son, Richard
Morgan Clark, born September 19.

Helen Murray is doing social sen'ice work at
St. John's Hospital, Yonkers, New York.

Virginia Elizabeth Scott of Cranford, Ne\v Jer-
sey, is private secretary to a landscape architect.

Louise Rogers is taking a secretarial course in
Asheville this winter.

Clarissa Brenner is doing secretarial work at
the Gulf Refining Company in Pittsburgh.

Theresa Lamfram is attending college in Mil-
waukee this winter, she expects to return to
Sweet Briar next year.

Jeanne Harman is a senior at Adelphia Col-
lege, Garden City, Long Island.

Jane Morrison has returned from Europe and
is spending the winter at her home in Charlotte.
She was on campus Thanksgiving week-end.

Virginia Broun is spending the winter at her
home in Charleston, West Virginia. Earlier in
the fall she visited Baylis Rector at her home in
Roanoke.

Betty Clapp is attending Mills College. Cali-
fornia, again this year.

Horense Hostetter is spending the winter at
her home in Hutchinson. Kansas.

Louise Peck is spending the winter at her home
in Portland, Oregon.

Angelia Morrison is spending the winter at her
home in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Betty Cassidy is attending the Colorado Univer-
sity this winter.

Baylis Rector is doing secretarial work in
Roanoke, Virginia, this winter.

Mary Lee Rvan is a student at Western Col-
lege. Oxford, Ohio.

Patsy McMullen transferred to Salem College,
Winston-Salem. North Carolina. She accompa-
nied the Salem Hockey Team to Sweet Briar for
the Virsinia-North Carolina Hockey Tournament.

Ida Mae Adams is spending the winter with
her aunt in Montgomery', Alabama.

Mary Moses is attending the University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Anne Armstrong has obtained a position in the
Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania.

Marjorie Van Evera was elected class editor
of the year book at Northwestern, and she made
the all-star hockev team there.

Mar>- Higgins and Maiy Thomas visited Caro-
lyn Lawrence this fall at her home in Summit.
New Jersey.

Marge Thuma, who is attending the University
of Cincinnati, was on campus Thanksgiving week-
end.

Martha Jean Humphreys is spending the winter
with her sister in Flushing, New York.

Helen Closson is at her home in Logansport,
Indiana, this winter.

Elizabeth Collier, who is attending Emor)' Uni-
versity in Atlanta, was on campus Thanksgiving
week-end.

Katherine Hanna is spending the winter at her
home in Indianapolis.

Elvira Cochrane, who is attending the Univer-
sity of Alabama, was on campus in October.

Martha Diehl was on campus recently. She
will make her debut this winter.

Caroline Laivrence will be at home until after
Christmas. She is then planning to enter the
Columbia School of Journalism.

EX-1935

^Margaret Taylor spent several days on campus
recently.

Maiy Atmar Smith is attending the College of
Charleston, pending her return to Sweet Briar
next fall.

Margaret Taylor is a student at St. Man's in
Raleigh.

Charlotte Hardin is planning to pursue a secre-
tarial course after Christmas.

Dorothy Prince is attending V^ illiam and Mary
College.

Lois Vanderhoef is a student at the University
of North Dakota.

Barbara Butts is continuing her studies at the
University of California.

Marjorie Fowler is attending Michigan State
College.

Kathleen Casey has been visiting former class-
mates diuing the fall and plans to study music
after Christmas.

Catherine Culp is attending Queen Chicora
College, Charlotte. North Carolina.

Nancy Row is a student at Bethany College this
winter.

Frances Hallett is continuing her studies at
Traphagens" School of Fashion in New York City.

Zane-Cetti Irwin is attending the L'niversity of
Iowa.

Charity Hulse is spending the winter in Ashe-
ville, North Carolina.

Kathrvn Steiner is pursuing her studies at the
University of Cincinnati. She spent Thanksgiving
week-end on campus.

Martha Neuenschwander is attending Mount
\ ernon Seminar>- in Washington.

Elizabeth Stone is a student at the L^niversity
of Cincinnati.

Mary Jane Hastings is continuing her studies
at Depauw.

Ora Davis is spending the winter in Huntington.
West Virginia.

Jane Anderson plans to enter Sarah Lawrence
College in February.

FORMS OF BEQUEST

/ give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia., and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ , to be invested and from time to time

re-invested by said Corporation as it shall deem best, and to

be called the Endowment Fund. The

interest and income therefrom, shall be applied by said Cor-
poration to the payment of the salaries of its teachers as it
shall deem expedient.

I give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ , to be used and appropriated by said

Corporation for its benefit in such manner as it shall deem
to be most useful.

I give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia-, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $.... , to be invested and from time to time

re-invested by said Corporation as it shall deem best, and to

be called the Scholarship Fund, the

interest and income to be applied by said Corporation to the
aiding of its deserving students in Sweet Briar Institute or
College.

44 ^<^^

I FORGOT my galoshes, but I'm going
along in the rain . . . having a good time
. . . smoking my Chesterfields.

Just downright good cigarettes. They're
milder and they taste better.
Just having a good time. They Satisfy.

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UMNAE

EWS

Sweet Briar College

AAARCH 1933

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PUBLISHED By THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

Four times a year— March, June, October and December
Subscription Rate— $1.00 a year; Single Copies, 30 Cents

Entered as Second Class Matter November S3, 1931, at the Post Office at Sweet Briar, Virsinia,
under the Act of March 3, 1879

MARCH, 1933

VOLUME II.

NUMBER 3.

The Alumnae News is a member of the American Alumni Council

THE SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

President

EDNA LEE WOOD (Mrs. John Clark), '26
60 Gramercy Park, New York City

First Vice-President

KATHARYN NORRIS KELLEY

(Mrs. Stillman F. 11), "26

Clark Road, Babson Pai'k

Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts

Second Vice-President

ALICE WEYMOUTH, '32
152 Central Avenue, Flushing, New York

Treasurer

JEANETTE BOONE, -27
Sweet Briar, Virginia

Alumnae Secretary

VIVIENNE BARKALOW BRECKENRIDGE,

"18
Sweet Briar. \ irginia

Members of the Council

MARGARET BANISTER, "16
Sweet Briar, Virginia

DOROTHY KELLER, -26

125 South Lexington Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

GERTRUDE DALLY, "22

242 Noble Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

GERTRUDE PRIOR, "29
29 Fisher Place, Trenton, New Jersey

MARGARET McVEY, '18 (Honorao Member I
1417 Grove Avenue, Richmond. Virginia

The Lake

SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE NEWS

Editor — Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge, '18

Table of Contents

The Lake Frontispiece

Greetings FROii The Old Cabin 4

To All Sweet Briar Alumnae 6

Alumnae Clubs 7

Our Moneyless Campaign 12

Commencement, June, 1933... 13

Proposed Ch.inges to the Constitution 13

Old Letters 14

Of Books No End 17

America and Sweet Brl4.r 20

Ho.\RD Coupons for Sweet Briar 22

Life in Germany 24

Frg.m The Art Department 25

The M.4Y D.A.Y Tr.4ditions 26

The First Four May Queens — With the Present Queen 27

May Day, 1933 28

Concerts and Lectures 29

The Honor Banquet : 31

From the Athletic Dep.irtment 32

London in a Day 33

Graduate Tr.4Vel Service 33

Miss Stockholm's New Book 34

The American Alumni Council 35

Campus News 36

Cu.iss Secretaries 37

Class Personals 38

Sweet Briar College

In front of

the Cabin

Greetings From the Old Cabin

By Percy MacKaye

TO the Alumnae Association of Sweet
Briar College, with my especial
thanks to Mrs. Breckenridge, I am
indebted for the gracious action which has
enabled me, during this college y^ai' of
1932-33, to use the charming cabin former-
ly headquarters of the Alumnae, for meet-
ings of my class in "Creative Aspects of
the Drama."

In that ancient little cabin of ante-bellum
memories, tucked away among the high
box hedges, the lighted log fire on autumn
and winter evenings has gathered many
zestful conferences of alert minds and
faces around its hearthstone.

Recently, with the oncoming of Spring,
by earliest pipings of frogs at night and
of "smale fowles" at morning sessions,
through windows opened toward the Blue
Ridges, we had occasion to touch upon
certain lyric-dramatic qualities of Chau-
cer's "Canterbury Tales," and in that con-
nection to read aloud from my play, "The
Canterbury Pilgrims," wherein Chaucer
himself is seen (re-imagined for our
theatre) , surrounded by the characters of
his own masterpiece in the process of feel-
ing and creating it. And because I think
certain passages of my play express the

Spirit of Spring at Sweet Briar more aptl)^
than I might try to express it here in prose,
I quote the following, for their moods of
nature and landscape, by night and day,
which suggest to me the appeal (serene,
yet quickened by generations of youth) of
these lovely Virginian surroundings.

So, while a slender-shining sickle glows
in the sky above Paul Mountain, one of
the class in the cabin is reading aloud from
a scene between Chaucer's Prioress and the
poet:

Prioress

Parlez toujours. Monsieur!
Parlez toujours!

Chaucer

How silver falls the night!
The hills lie down like sheep: the young

frog flutes;
The yellow-hammer, from his coppice,

pipes
Drowsy rehearsals of his matin-song;
The latest swallow dips behind the stack.
What beauty dreams in silence! The white

stars.
Like folded daisies in a summer field,

Alumnae News

Sleep ill their dew, and by yon primrose

gap
In darkness' hedge, St. Ruth hath dropped
her sickle.

Prioress
Nay, yonder's the new moon.

Again — to a gallop of hoofs along "die
oozy turf," where morning echoes of the
Sweet Briar hunt rouse the Sleeping Giant
far off, and where scon, at noon bell, near
the campus daffodil beds, the '"high walls"
will be "garlanded with girls" — another of
the cabin-class is speaking this passage be-
tween the Canterbury poet and his "yong
Squyer," just after their ride from the
Tabard Inn — (to Sweet Briar's hilltop!):

Squire

Sir, what a ride! Was ever such a ride
As ours? . . . Hillsides newly greened.
Brooks splashing silver in the small, sweet

grass.
Pelt gusts of rain dark'ning the hills, and

then
Wide swallowed up in sunshine! And to

feel
My snorting jennet stamp the oozy turf
Under my stirrup, whilst from overhead
Sonnets shook down from every bough.

Oh, sir.
Rode Caesar such a triumph from his wars

When Rome's high walls were garlanded

with girls? . . .

Chaucer
Spring makes us youths together. On such

a day
Old age is fuddled and time's weights run

down.
Hark! (A bird sings; they listen.)
The meadow is the cuckoo's clock, and

strikes
The hour at every minute; larks run up
And ring its golden chimes against the sun.

Squire
Sir, only lovers count the time in heaven.
Are you in love, too?

Chaucer

Over head and heart . . .

Mine own true mistress is sweet Out-of-
doors.

No Whitsun lassie wears so green a kirtle.

Nor sings so clear, nor smiles with such
blue eyes,

As bonny April, winking tears away.

Not flowers o' silk upon an empress' sleeve

Can match the broidery of an English field.

No lap of amorous lady in the land

Welcomes her gallant, as sweet Mistress
Earth

Her lover. Let Eneas have his Dido!

Daffydowndilly is the dame for me.

Mr. MacKaye by the Lighted Log Fire

Sweet Briar College

To All Sweet Briar Alumnae

Dear Alumnae:

Doesn't the very thought of spring at
Sweet Briar cheer you on these gloomy
late winter days? If I were a travel agent
I might say to you, "Leave all your worries
behind and take a trip to the Blue Ridge
mountains where the invigorating air will
refresh you and the beauty of Sweet Briar
campus will fill your souls with beauty
for months to come!" — And it would all
be true! But I am not a travel agent and
Commencement at Sweet Briar offers you
much more than beauty and invigorating
air. So I am proud indeed to extend to
each one of you, on- behalf of the Alumnae
Association, a very cordial invitation to
return for this coming Commencement.
To those of you who have spent those three
full and happy days at Sweet Briar before
there is no need for elaboration on the
joys that await you, but you who have yet
to take part in your first Commencement
as Alumnae, let me assure you there is a
no more delightful occasion. If you have-
n't seen all the new buildings, and even if
you have, you will be thrilled with the
physical progress the college is making,
and if you haven't heard Miss Glass' talks
at the Alumnae banquet, and especially if
you have, you will be proud indeed of the
increasingly important place Sweet Briar
is making for herself in the educational
world. Whether your class is "reuning"
or not we will be delighted to see you,
although I hope you will try especially
hard to come if that is the case. Ajid
may I be excused for putting in a very
special word of invitation to 1928 for this
their Fifth reunion as our Hostess Class.
I am sure you will go home feeling
healthier, happier, years younger and most
important of all. much closer in touch with
the college and your Alumnae Association.

To me, this annual gathering at Sweet
Briar is one of the most important oppor-
tunities for the growth and prosperity and
usefulness of the Alumnae Association, and
the fact that Sweet Briar (alone of all the
colleges I know) actually gives her Alum-

nae these three days on the campus each
spring is so unusual that I feel every one
of us should try mightily to take advantage
of it.

The past year is one of which both the
college and your Association may well be
proud. Sweet Briar's place as first among
women's colleges and second of all col-
leges in standing in the Sophomore tests
is a notable example; the large registra-
tion in a "depression" year, the many new
opportunities which have been arranged
for student aid, and her leadership in a
Junior year in the British Isles are all note-
worthy and a cause for self-gratulation.

The change of the Alumnae News to a
real magazine, complete, interesting and
of literary worth from cover to cover (and
not excepting those same covers) is prob-
ably the most obvious forward step in the
work of the association, and again Uianks
go to our efficient secretary for making
this possible. But we have made other
advancement equally gratifying. Three
new Alumnae Clubs have been formed and
are hard at work; Sweet Briar Day was
celebrated in seventy-one cities in thirty-
one states; our great coupon campaign is
pointing toward a very satisfying finish;
and just as I write, word comes that our
Secretary has been elected regional direc-
tor for District Three ( North and South
Carolina, Florida. Georgia, Alabama, and
Virginia) of the National Alumni Council.
This is the first time a woman has held the
office in this district and it is a great com-
pliment both to her and to the association
that Mrs. Breckenridge was chosen.

So you see we are growing and gaining
recognition, but we need your help and
interest to continue the progress. We are
eager for your suggestions and ideas and
the best plan I can think of is for j'ou to
come back to Commencement and tell us
about them then. I shall be looking for-
ward to seeing you.

Most sincerely,

Edna Lee Wood, '26,

President.

Alumnae News

Alumnae Clubs

THE following individual reports on
the various Alumnae Gluts show
more clearly than ever that our own
Sweet Briar alumnae are fully conscious
of their responsibilities to the association
and that the)' are working, as never before,
to accomplish successfully the sti'enuous
programs that they have mapped out for
themselves. You cannot help feeling a
thrill as you read each report, for all are
doing their share to maintain this central
office. It is extremely gratifymg, not only
to the Council members, but especially to
vour secretary to learn that ever)' organ-
ized Club is having some sort of benefit,
that many Clubs have gone a step further
and are doing constructive work for their
communitv, never, however, at the expense
of the Alumnae Association Treasury. As
we think back over the past fe^v years we
are impressed with the steady growth of
our older Clubs and with the interest of
our )"omiger organized ones. Because of
this splendid growth and interest we have
withstood the strain of depression — not
that we have not felt it — for ivho has es-
caped? We fully realize, that as others
are hunting their Profit of Adversity, 'ive
have found ours in our Clubs. One speaks
of a "depression asset" which adversity has
fostered, and at times actually forced. Of
this we are fully aware as we emerge from
the state of depression — and so as our
Clubs have been Our Profit of Adversity,
they are now Our Hope for Prosperity.
We congratulate you all and wish you
well for the coming year.

AMHERST— Ann Lewis, '30, begins her
third term as the President of this Club,
Nancv ^ orthington. '31. is the Vice-Presi-
dent and Fanny O'Brian Hettrick, '31, is
die Secretary and Treasurer. On February
10 this Club gave a very successful benefit
bridsje party at the college in Fergus Reid
Parlors. !\Iore than eighty tickets were
sold and enou2;h money was raised to pay
their dues. They also plan to have a gar-
den partv late in June to raise additional
funds for the office. Their Sweet Briar
Day meeting had a record attendance of
alumnae to''ether with several visitors.
Miss Ames. Miss Ramaa;e and Dr. Edwards
attended as did Gertrude Prior, '29.

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN— So enthu-
siastic were the two Sweet Briar girls liv-
ing in Ann Arbor, over the plan for Sweet
Briar Day that they lunched together on
December 28. They were Jean Grant
Taylor, '24, and Helen Ladd, ex-'28.

ATLANTA— Sweet Briar Day was cele-
brated with a luncheon at the Driving
Club. Susie Ella Burnett, '32, was the
chairman, assisted by Edith Marshall, ex-
32, and a record number attended.

BALTIMORE— Sweet Briar Day was
celebrated at the Quinby Inn and was
purely a social function leavuig their busi-
ness for the February meeting which was
held on die first at the home of Lillian
Everett Blake, ex-'23. At this time Eliza-
beth Marston, '30. was re-elected President
and Dorothy Hamilton Davis, '26, was re-
elected Treasurer. This Club is trying a
new and interesting plan for meetings.
The meetings are held in the homes of the
members once a month at night, and after
a short business session they play bridge
and each player donates a small sum for
the Club Treasury.

BIRlMINGHAM— This Club held their
meeting on Sweet Briar Day at the Thomas
Jefferson Hotel and Mildred Hodges was
re-elected the President for the coming
year. \^1iile their plans for the spring
benefit are not complete, we are assured
that this newly organized group is as en-
thusiastic as ever and will do their share
for the Association.

BOSTON— This Club held dieir Sweet
Briar Day meeting at the home of Kath-
aryn Norris Kelley, '26. Miss Glass was
the honored guest. Mrs. Kelley was elect-
ed the President and Caroline Flynn E\ey,
'24, Secretary. At their next meeting,
which will be held at the College Club of
Boston, some time during our spring vaca-
tion, plans for their benefit will be com-
pleted. Beside Miss Glass there were pres-
ent at the meeting sixteen alumnae, and
two students.

BLIFFALO — Their meetins; Sweet Briar
Day was held at the Town Club with Mary
Bristol Graham, '26. Alumnae Representa-
tive in charge. It is interestina; to note

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that all of the students living in and near
Buffalo attended this meeting.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CLUB—
Under the able chairmanship of LaVern
McGee Olney, '23, this group held one
of the most unique meetings on Sweet
Briar Day that has ever been held. They
met for luncheon at the Foreign Club, in
Tia Juana, Mexico. This is the first time
that a meeting has been held out of the
United States and proved to be so inter-
esting and enjoyable that plans are alreadv
made for the group to meet there on Sweet
Briar Day next December and to invite all
of the alumnae living in California to
attend.

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA—
Lillian Maddox Wbitner, '22, was elected
President of this Club at its first meeting
last fall. Their Sweet Briar Day meeting
was celebrated with a luncheon at the
Rosalie Burbank Tea Room with more
alumnae and students attending than ever
before. Connie Burwell, '34, Lena Jones.
'33, and Margaret Newton, '34, all gave
interesting news of the campus. Follow-
ing the luncheon the movies were shown
at the home of Martha Lee Williamson.
'25. This meeting was considered most
successful.

CHICAGO— Elizabeth Hilton. '29. was
elected the new President of this Club at
its meeting on Sweet Briar Day, which was
a luncheon held at Maillard's. This meet-
ing was well attended and we look for this
large Club to continue its active program
during the spring.

CINCINNATI— At the first meeting of
this Club last fall the following officers
were elected: Mary Anne McDiarmid
Serodino, '29, President. Jocelyn Watson
Reeen. '28, Vice-President, and Edith
Durrell Marshall. '21, was re-elected
Treasurer. At their meeting Sweet Briar
Day, which was a luncheon at the Cin-
cinnati Club, Gail Shepherd, '33, spoke
of her year in France. While plans for
their sprinq; benefit are not entirelv com-
plete at this time it is expected that they
will have some function later in April.

CLEVELAND— The Cleveland Club has
been most active all year, doing a variety
of interestinsf things. At their first meet-
ing last October thev elected the following

officers: Virginia Hatch Combs. ex-'19.
President, Dorothy Brothers Kellev, ex-'I5,
Vice-President, Hazel Trimble Winship.
Academy, Secretary, and Mary Bissell
Ridler, '17, Treasurer. October found
them not only selling tulip bulbs but also
giving a benefit bridge party, both of
which were highly successful. The Club
meets the second Friday of each month at
which time they sew for the babies at the
City Hospital and also have book reviews,
which adds considerably to the interest of
each meeting. In December they held an
extra meeting to fill stockings for the chil-
dren at the City Hospital. Their Sweet
Briar Day function took the form of a
luncheon at the Hotel Statler. Eleanor
Alcott. '34. gave an interesting report on
the undergraduate activities. In February
another benefit bridge was held at the
home of Mrs. Combs. One is able to judge
from this that their spring program will
be a full one. and that Sweet Briar is cer-
tainly felt in that communitv.

WASHINGTON, D. C— This Club had
the first meeting of the fall on October 25
at which time Elizabeth Saunders, '30, was
re-elected the President, Nancy Hanna, '20,
Secretary, and Ruth Remon, '32, Treasurer.
At that meeting they planned their rum-
mage sale which was held on November 11
and 12 with Ann Gilbert, '32, in charge.
This sale proved to be quite successful.
Sweet Briar Day was celebrated with a
luncheon at the Parrot Tea Shop. Mar-
garet Banister. '16. and your secretary,
Vivienne Barkaloic Breckenridge, '18, were
honor guests and both spoke of the work
of their respective offices. On February
23 this Club had the pleasure of having
Mrs. Bernice Lill, Registrar, as honored
guest at an evening meeting. Guests at
this meeting included, not only alumnae,
but also parents of prospective students,
numbering more than twenty-five. Mrs.
Lill spoke on matters pertaining to admis-
sions and added man)' interesting details
to the movies of the campus as thev were
shown. For a spring activitv this Club
plans to have a Treasure Hunt for the
benefit of the central office.

EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA
CLL B — Just a vear ago announcement was
made of the organization of this new Club:
and in that year, they have more than

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proven themselves worthv of being organ-
ized. Virginia \^ilson, '27, is the Presi-
dent and Susan Fitchett, '24, Secretary and
Treasurer. This Club decided to earn, in-
dividually, enough to meet their Club dues;
this they have already done, and the check
has been received, for which we are thank-
ful. Their Sweet Briar Day meeting was
a bridge party at the home of Susan Fit-
chett, '24, and they are one of the distin-
guished groups to have a hundred per cent
attendance and this is truly remarkable as
several of the members had eightv miles to
drive to attend. At their March meeting
thev will have the movie film of the college
to show.

FORT WORTH— Frances Spiller, ex-
'35, was the chairman for their meeting
on Sweet Briar Day which was a luncheon
held at the Fort Worth Club. Congratu-
lations go to this Club for their one hun-
dred percent attendance at this luncheon.
Nearly all of the present students were
also present. This meeting proved to be
so successful that another one is planned
for later in the spring at which time the
movies of the campus will be shown.

HUNTINGTON— For several years this
Club has given a benefit dance during the
holidays and this year the affair was con-
sidered very successful. Because of a flu
epidemic the meeting for Sweet Briar Day
had to be postponed but was held at a
later date and was well attended.

INDIANAPOLIS— Emily Kersey. Spec-
ial, was elected the President of this Club
at their first meeting last fall, and Anna
Torian, '29. Secretary and Treasurer.
Sweet Briar Day was celebrated with a
luncheon at the Propylaeum. Ruth Har-
vey Keeling, Academy, was the chairman
for this meeting and she was assisted bv
Mary Mitchell Stackhouse, ex-'24, and
Anna Torian, '29. Special guests included
Miss Ella Marthens from the Shortage
High School faculty. Miss Hilda Steward.
Principal of Tudor Hall and Mrs. Paul
Schaffner. a former member of the Sweet
Briar facultv. and also present students.
Much interest was shown in the display
of pictures, our Sweet Briar china and a
poster "Save Coupons for Sweet Briar."
Julia Daugherty, '34, gave some interesting
news of the campus life. Miss Kersev
spoke on the honors held by the Indiana

students, the soap campaign and the plan
that had been worked out for the Indiana
Sweet Briar Alumnae to help with the Red
Cross relief sewing. The)^ began this sew-
ing on the second Tuesday in Januarv and
will continue weekly meetings for as long
as it is necessary. Again we congratulate
this Club for its very generous check of
S200.00 which was the first to be received
for the current vear.

KANSAS CITY— Josephine Reid, '30,
was the chairman for Sweet Briar Day
meeting which was a luncheon held at the
Lniversity Club. In spite of a flu epi-
demic the luncheon was well attended.

LYNCHBURG— On October 27 this
Club held its first meeting of the fall at
which time the following officers were
elected for the year; Ella Williams, '31,
President, Amelia Hollis Scott, '29, Vice-
President, Margaret Ellen Bell, ex-'33,
Secretary, and Mary Gochnauer, '29,
Treasurer. Edna Lee Wood, '26, President
of the Alumnae Association, and Vivienne
Barkalow Breckenridge, '18. Secretary of
the Association, attended this meeting- and
both spoke on the plans of the central office
for the year. Movies of the campus were
shown at this time. Their Sweet Briar
Day meeting was a luncheon at Jenny's
Tea Shop and plans were made for a bene-
fit bridge party to be given in March.

MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL— Dr.
Marion Grimes, ex-'24, is the President of
this Club. On December 4, thev held a
meeting to complete the plans for Sweet
Briar Day. Katherine Shenehon Child.
'22, was the chairman for this function
which was a luncheon given' at the Minne-
apolis Club. For some years this group,
though one of our smaller ones, has always
held a "white elephant sale" for the benefit
of the central office, and this unique method
of raising money will again be followed
this spring.

NEW YORK CITY— This Club has been
extremely active since early last fall when
thev were asked to serve on the Club Divi-
sion of the Gibson Emergency L nemployed
Relief Committee of which Mrs. Auiust
Belmont was the general chairman. The
number of members of the New ^ ork Club
has been reduced considerably due to the
fact that those alumnae livins' in northern

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New Jersey have formed their own Club
and have withdrawn from the New York
Club. This change has been practical
from every standpoint but it has taken
considerable time and planning to work
out the details involved in such a change.
On Sweet Briar Day a tea was held at the
home of Janet Lee Bouvier, ex-'29, at
which time Sarah Dodgeji McGuire, '29,
was elected the Vice-President and Susan
Jelley Blome, ex-'28, the Treasurer. Page
Bird Woods, '28, remains as President for
another year and Wanda Jensch Harris,
'26, as Secretary, as the New York Club
alternates the election of its officers. At
this meeting a constitution was adopted
which should prove helpful to such a large
Club. The principal speaker was Mr.
Dunbaugh from the National Economy
League. At tlie meeting February 7th held
at the Beverly Hotel, plans for a rummage
sale, to be held tlie middle of March, were
completed and tentative plans for a theatre
benefit were made. The committee for the
rummage sale is as follows: Eleanor
Branch Cornell, ex-'28, Wanda Jensch
Harris, '26, Alice Weymouth, '32, Susan
Jelley Blome, ex- '28, Julia Reynolds
Dreisbach, ex-'27, Jean Saunders, '30, Cor-
nelia Wailes, '27, Tracv Steele Eschweiler,
ex-'23, Ann Beth Price Clark, '29, Sara
McKinney Groner, ex-'26, and Edna Lee
Wood, '26. This Club meets once a month
and has made plans to have a special fea-
ture for each meeting.

NORTHERN NEW JERSEY— Congrat-
ulations are certainly in order for this
newly formed Club. From the number of
things already an accomplished fact and
the number planned for later in the spring
it would appear that this Club was an "old
timer'' instead of one of our most recently
organized. They decided last October to
form what is known as the Northern New
Jersey Alumnae Club. Edna Lee Wood,
'26, attended the first meeting and inspired
them to start a program of activity, but
they have gone far beyond and are well
on the way to lead all of our Clubs in the
number of enterprises tliat they will have
completed by the end of May. At the
first meeting the followins officers were
elected: Dorothy Ayers Holt, ex-'31. Pres-
ident, Ethel Ware, '31, Vice-President,
Pauline Woodward Hill, '31, Secretary

and Katherine Taylor, ex-'31. Treasurer.
Sweet Briar Day was celebrated with a
"dessert-tea" at The Blue Door in East
Orange where there was a record attend-
ance of both alumnae and students. At
this meeting a constitution was adopted
and plans for raising money were made.
Eight sectional secretaries have been ap-
pointed as a means of more easily keeping
in touch with the girls in their respective
districts. A series of bridge parties have
been planned for each district. Montclair
started with a bridge party on February
28 at the Montclair Women's Club. They
had twenty-five tables playing and many
bought tickets who were miable to attend.
They plan on having a movie benefit in
late spring and also to have a "no profit"
dinner dance when they hope to enlist the
interest and co-operation of the husbands.
Is it any wonder that we are proud of this
Club?

PHILADELPHIA— Mary Sailor Gardi-
ner, '25, is the President of this very active
Club, which holds montlily meetings. Sec-
tional secretaries have been appointed to
more closely keep in touch with alumnae
living in their respective districts. These
secretaries are as follows: Elizabeth
Harms, '28, for Philadelphia proper, Re-
becca MacGeorge Bennett, ex-'18, for the
Main Line, Mary Douglas Lyons, '30, for
Montgomery County, Marion Jayne Ber-
guido, '28, for Drexel Hill, Elizabetli Moor,
'26, for South Jerse)^ and Elizabeth Boone,
'30, for Atlantic City. Lydia Kimball
Maxam, ex-'24, was appointed the chair-
man of the Plans Committee and brought
in a very full and complete report for the
meeting on Sweet Briar Day. At this meet-
ing, which was held at the College Club,
Edna Lee Wood, '26, President, spoke on
the Value of the Organized Clubs, and also
on Alimmae Funds. This luncheon was
one of the largest that the Club has ever
had. The January meeting was held at the
home of Beatrix Baldwin Lewis, ex-'13,
and final plans for the puppet shows were
completed at this time. A "pep" luncheon
was held on February 8 at the College Club
and even that early more than enough
tickets had been sold to assure the ex-
penses. Two performances were given by
the Philadelphia Junior League for the
Sweet Briar Alumnae Club, one on Feb-

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ruary 18 at the home of Mrs. Boericke and
the other at the Parish House of St.-Mar-
tins-in-the-Fields on February 25. These
shows were well attended and the Club is
indeed to be congratulated on their splen-
did success. Their spring program is a
full one as they plan now to have a series
of bridge lessons which will be given in
the home of one of the alumnae. They
have secured one of the leading bridge
teachers in Philadelphia to co-operate with
them in working out such a plan. In May
they will give a tea for prospective students
and their parents. We can certainly point
with pride to this Club.

PITTSBURGH— This Club has been
busy working for the association since
early last fall. On October 18 they held
a benefit Duplicate Bridge tournament at
the Hotel Schenley. Dorothy Keller, '26,
President of the Club was the general
chairman, with Martha Lobingier Lusk,
'24, assistant chairman, and Dorothy
Bailey Hughes, '26, chairman on arrange-
ments. Catherine Cordes Kline, '21, was
in charge of tickets and had on her com-
mittee: Ruth Hasson, '30, Ruth Taylor
Franklin, '25, Mary Fohl Kerr, ex-'22,
Elizabeth Uber, '32, and Burd Dickson
Stevenson, '22. Mildred Ellis Reed, ex-
'21, was in charge of the cake committee
assisted by Nancy Sherrill Moses, '27,
Ruth Aufderheide Hull, ex-'26, Mary Close
Gleason, '27, Dorothy Ellis Worley, ex-
'23, and Charlotte Marks Schade, '29.
Elizabeth McCready, '30, had charge of
the candy committee and was assisted by
Virginia Hippie Bauger, ex-'28, Margaret
Malone McClements, '26, Elizabeth Orr,
ex-'30, and Katherine Close, '29. Gertrude
Dally, '22, and Elizabeth Williams, '30,
were in charge of the prizes. More than
two hundred tickets were sold and from
every standpoint the affair was considered
a great success. Sweet Briar Day was
celebrated with a luncheon at the new
College Club with a record attendance of
both alumnae and students. Gertrude
Dally, '22, was elected Vice-President and
Elizabeth Orr, ex-'30. Secretary. The
President, Dorothy Keller, '26, and the
Treasurer, Emma Lou Haller, ex-'33, re-

main in office for another year. It was
decided to have the annual rummage sale
and plans for this will soon be completed.
This custom of the Pittsburgh Club to have
a spring rummage sale each year is one of
the activities that it has continued for many
years and is actually looked forward to by
the customers. We do congratulate you
on the splendid success of your Club.

RICHMOND— Margaret Green, ex-'29,
is the new President of this Club, Charlotte
Kent, '31, is Vice-President, Norvell Royer
Orgain, '30, the Secretary and Henrietta
Crump, '17, is Treasurer. Charlotte Kent,
'31, was in charge of the arrangements for
Sweet Briar Day which was celebrated with
a luncheon at the Gypsy Tavern. More
alumnae were present at this time than
ever before. Miss Sparrow, Caroline Fen-
tress, '36, and Frances Powell, '33, all
spoke and the affair was considered very
successful from every standpoint. On
February 22 a card party was given at
the Anderson Art Gallery. Margaret Wal-
ton, '29, was the chairman and this, too,
was considered a great success.

TOLEDO — Sweet Briar Day was cele-
brated this year with a luncheon at the
Toledo Woman's Club. The following
officers were elected: Rachael Lloyd
Holton, '17, President, Doris Thompson
Reeves, Academy, Vice-President, and
Margaret Hiett, Secretary and Treasurer.
Charlotte Whinery, '29, Gratia Geer Howe,
ex-'30, and Emilie Jasperson Bayha, ex-
'30, were in charge of the arrangements
for this meeting. Plans are almost com-
pleted for this Club to sell and rent jig
saw puzzles and we do congratulate them
on this new and interesting idea for mak-
ing money.

WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA—
Under the able management of Elizabeth
Stevenson, '30, this group celebrated Sweet
Briar Day with an oyster roast at the home
of Katherine Carr, ex-'31. Celebrated is
certainly the word for they had a one hun-
dred percent attendance and the group is
by no means a small one. Congratula-
tions!

Sweet Briar College

Our Moneyless Campaign

"^£i!

Approximately only two months remain
to complete our goal of 150,000 coupons.
ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART IN THIS
CAIVIPAIGN? An opportunity has been
given to every alumna to do something for
the association — and at no expense. Will
you not all please do your utmost to make
this campaign a success? We cannot fail
to appreciate the generosity of the firm;
we cannot fail to realize what it means to
the office to have this succeed, and above
all we cannot fail our Alma Mater in a
time of dire need. It will require 10,000
coupons a week to take us over the top by

June first. It can be done. That great
house cleaning month of April could pro-
duce almost enough to wind up the cam-
paign if every one would use the COUPON
BEARING PRODUCTS, and SEND IN
THE COUPONS. We are fully aware that
your church may be having the same cam-
paign, but we understand that such cam-
paigns are of longer duration and that
you will have an opportunity to give cou-
pons to them long after ours has closed.
Soap is the one commodity that we all
use; so let's all concentrate on this cam-
paign and be OVER THE TOP BY COM-
MENCEMENT.

Many Thanks

On behalf of the Alumnae Council, and
especially your secretary, who will benefit
most through the success of this drive, we
should like to take this opportunity to
acknowledge and publicly thank the fol-
lowing friends, faculty, students, and alum-
nae for their coupons, and more for the
spirit of co-operation that prompted the
sending of them. We regret that the list
is so small but we have reason to believe
that our list for June will be a large and
imposing one.

FRIENDS OF THE COLLEGE

Mrs. W. R. Eaton.

Mrs. C. N. Fit.

Mr. F. J. Gubelman.

Mrs. W. D. James.

Mrs. C. B. Leech.

Marinello Shop, Lynchburg. ,

Miss Eu!a Mathews.

Mrs. lola Redford.

Mrs. J. A. Strickland.

Mrs. R. H. Templeton.

Mrs. J. Read Voigt.

SWEET BRIAR COMMUNITY

Mrs. James Abbitt.
Miss Adeline Ames.
Mrs. J. E. Barker.
Mrs. J. P. Beard.
Mrs. W. C. Blackwell.
Boxwood Inn.
Mrs. William Dew.
Miss Meta Glass.
Miss Marian Hallett.
Mrs. Bernard Jordan.
Miss Dee Long.

Miss Lelia Marsh.
Miss Gay Patteson.
The Walkers.
Mrs. R. W. Watts.
Miss Miriam Weaver.

ALVMNAE

SPECIAL

Emily Marston Cumnock.

1910
Eugenia Griffin Burnett.

1912
Hazel Gardner Lane, ex-'I2.

1913
Elizabeth Crammer Torrey.
Maiy Pinkerton Kerr.
Beniice Richardson Campbell.
Maiy Clark Rogers, ex-'13.
Henrianne Early, ex-'13.

1914
Ruth Maurice Gorrell.
Henrietta Washburn.

1915
Helen Baker Waller, ex-"15.

1916
Margaret Banister.
Mary Pennypacker Davis.

1917
Rachal Lloyd Holton.
Bertha Pfister Wailes.
Anna Beveridge Leake, ex-'17.

1918
Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge.
Julia Barber Taylor, ex-'18.

1919
Katherine Block.
Caroline Sharpe Sanders.

1920
Helen Beeson Comer.

1921
Rhoda Allen Worden.

1922
Amey Smythe.

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1923
Helen McMahon.
Elizabeth Taylor Valentine.
Margaret Wise 0"Neal, ex-"23.

1924
Susan Fitchett.
Martha Lobingier Lusk.
Helen Mowry Fell.

1925
Martha McHenry Halter.

1926
Dorothy Bailey Hughes.
Anne Barrett Allaire.
Katherine Blount.
Mai-y Bristol Graham.
Wanda Jensch Harris.
Dorothy Keller.
Edna Lee Wood.
M. Joyce MacGregor.
Helen Mutscher Becker.
Margurette Denman Wilson.
Katharyn Norris Kelley.
Lois Peterson.
Mary Prange, ex-'26.

1927
Jeanette Boone.
Cornelia Wailes.
Gwen Harris Scott, ex-'27.

1928
Page Bird Woods.
Frances Coyner Huffard.
Marion Jayne Berguido.
Anne Beth Price Clark.

1929
Maiy Archer Bean Eppes.
Dorothy Fowler.
Amelia Hollis Scott.
Elizabeth Lankiord Miles.
Charlotte Whineiy.
Elizabeth Payne, ex-"29.

Commencement, June, 1933

Commencement this June will find 1913
holding its twentieth reunion; 1923, its
tenth, and 1928 its fifth. 1928 will be the
hostess class with 1913 and 1923 as hon-
ored guests. According to the Dix Sys-
tem other classes to have reunions this
year are 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1932. Full
details of Commencement will be sent you
early in May; this is just a reminder to
start now to plan to return June 3-6. Dr,
Half ord E. Luccock, of the Divinity School,
Department of Homiletics, of Yale Uni-
versity, will give the Baccalaureate Sermon.
The Commencement Address will be given
by Professor Robert McElroy, of Oxford,
England, who is at present on leave in the
United States.

1930
Elizabeth Marston.
Norvell Royer Orgain.
Elizabeth Stevenson.
Mildred Stone Green.
Fanny Penn Ford, ex-"30.
Lillian Lee Wood, ex-"30.

1931
Elizabeth Clark.
Virginia Quintard.
Ella Williams.
Peronne Whittaker.
Nancy Worthington.
Dorothy Ayres Holt, ex-'31.
Rosalie Faulkner, ex-'31.
Nancy Gaines, ex-"31.

1932
Marcia Patterson.
Alice Weymouth.

EX-1933
Elizabeth Taylor.
Virginia Vesey.

EX-1934
Mary G. Krone.
Marion Oliver.

EX- 1935
Maude Winborne.

STUDENTS

Adah Barber, 1933.
Margery Gubelman, 1933.
Geraldine Malloiy, 1933.
Warwick Rust, 1933.
Hettie Wells, 1933.
Rosemary Fiy, 1934.
Amy Davies. 1934.
Julia Peterkin, 1935.
Jacqueline Strickland, 1935.
Lida Read Voigt, 1935.
Margaret Huxley, 1936.

Proposed Changes to the
Constitution

Your Council, after due consideration,
offers the following changes to the Consti-
tution:

That the office of treasurer be discon-
tinued and the offices of secretary and treas-
urer be combined, this change to be effect-
ive June, 1934.

That one additional member be added to
the Council as a substitute for the office of
the treasurer.

That the second vice-president be elected,
by the outgoing senior class, from a slate
submitted to them by the nominating com-
mittee.

That the outgoing president remain a
member of the Council for the two years
following the expiration of her term of
office.

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Alumnae News

Old Letters

A Plea for a Manuscript Department of Sweet Briar Library

by
Caroline Lambert Sparrow

EVER since I have been at Sweet Briar,
and iny years of service number now
a quarter of a century, I have wanted
the college to develop a manuscript de-
partment. At first I wanted it to become
the gathering place for data that dealt
with the social history of our Piedmont
section of Virginia, with its red clay un-
derfoot, and its blue mountains in the off-
ing; then as Sweet Briar drew students
from wider and wider areas my ambitions
grew, until I felt that we should gather
material to write some chapters in the
cultural and social histor)^ of America.
Now, with far-flung alumnae to gather our
manuscripts, and a fire-proof library in
which to house them, it seems to me the
time has come to bring this vision into
being.

The idea, too, seems in keeping with
present tendencies of research. The study
of history in this year of our Lord 1933 is
undergoing a three-way development, for-
ward, back and lateral. Ancient history no
longer begins with Greece, nor even with
the Pyramids. We have dug our way back
into long forgotten civilizations. We find
cities that have been built on top of cities.
They lie, in some cases, nine deep, like an
inverted skyscraper. As we go deeper and
farther yet, geology and anthropology
take up the story of our past and we dig
our way back into lives of cavemen, or to
some dimmer place, where the skeleton we
reconstruct seems doubtfully human, and
we can scarcely tell in what No-Man's
Land we wander. We can hardly pick up
a paper that does not bring fresh news
from this historic front.

Then it is obvious to any one alive that
significant history is being made around us
with astonishing rapidity. We live in a
changing age. New machines, new mores,
new problems, new dangers, new experi-
ments, and we hope, — new solutions.

Fascinating as it is to study whence we
came, and whither we are going, it is to
the third or lateral movement that I wish

to call the attention of the students and
alumnae of Sweet Briar. To many periods,
there has come a broadening and enrich-
ing and humanizing of our knowledge
through study of the social patterns — the
"Folk-ways," as they have been aptly
termed. Today historians are busying
themselves more than ever before with the
everyday life of the everyday man.

There are many reasons for this. The
political development of democracy ac-
counts for it, I think, in part. When we
seek for the causes of things as they are,
we must work back up the stream of public
opinion, into countless private lives, little
rills, as it were, of self-interest and pre-
judice and individual reaction to neighbor-
hood affairs. Not until we know what
forces shape the views of many individuals
can we understand the complexities that
form the great Mississippi of democratic
self-expression.

But that is not the only explanation.
Every intelligent person shares with the
historian a curiosity about the people of
the past, who are like us, and at the same
time so different. Fashions change, but
women are unalterably interested in dress;
recipes change, but food is of absorbing
interest three times a day, yesterday, today,
and forever. Human nature is the same,
but all the conditions of living have under-
gone revolution. How can we reconstruct
the lives of our forbears? The frontier
has vanished and the frontiersman. The
plantation has gone and the makers of it,
white and black. The "Puritan" lingers
chiefly in literature, and the words "gentle-
man" and "lady" have such amorphous
connotations that one can scarcely use them
without the explanation — the dating, as it
were, of quotation marks. If we are in-
terested about people we must understand
them in their environment. It is necessary
to reconstruct the vanished past.

Now if we want to bring the past back —
make it come alive to us — we do not go to
constitutions, nor even to drama. We do

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not look to any of tlie forms of self-ex-
pression where man is self-conscious or
deliberate. We want to catch him off guard
as it were, when he is busy about his own
affairs, thinking not of the historic past,
nor of the impression he may make on the
historic future, but about his own little
world of here and now. It is just here, I
think, that letters are so valuable. The
writers are not usually posing for future
readers, nor consciously recalling foggy
memoirs for the benefit of historians. No,
they are telling the news of the house, the
children and the neighborhood to some ab-
sent member of the group. Women's let-
ters, for instance, give us a look into their
world as nothing else does. Sometimes a
casual phrase will seem to light up a whole
landscape of domestic life. I remember
reading a letter from a mountain planta-
tion in tliis neighborhood, written by a
gentlewoman in January, 1824, to her hus-
band in the legislature at Richmond. She
gave the news of children and slaves, asked
him to buy certain things, and to notice for
her "what women were wearing in Rich-
mond," and tlien — "A pedlar came by to-
day, the only visitor I have seen since you
left in November." One sees the sparsely
settled country, the thick, viscous mud of
the winter roads; one recalls the protests
voiced by folk of Tidewater Virginia at
this period against putting the University
"so far out of the way"; and one sees a
loney woman, valiantly keeping the home-
fires burning, and wistfull)^ enquiring
about the fashions in Richmond.

There was a belle and beauty of this same
place and period who kept all her love
letters. She was belle for some time, and
these letters cover a transition period in
amatory fashions. The earlier letters are
stiff as brocade with formality. The gentle-
man humbly asks the honour of the lady's
hand, and signs himself her "obedient serv-
ant." Another later letter is written in a
lighter style. He asks the lady to go rid-
ing with him, — pleads a bit — "Say 'Yes,'
Miss Sally, then maybe you'll get the
habit!"

I have a letter before me of another less
fortunate woman, a negro slave, written to
Mr. Fletcher of Sweet Briar Plantation,
father of "Miss Indie" and grandfather to
our own Daisy, in whose memory Sweet
Briar College was founded. I will let it

tell its own poignant story.

the
february 16 1854
Mr Elizha fletcher

I write to you now for you to grant
me a great favor which you will oblige
me very much I am now In the hands of
Mr Woodrough and I expect to Start verry
soon too the south if you will not oblige
me as much as to buy me I would be very
glad if you would. I was a servant of
captain Eedmond pen. A sister of Mary
which you own. Martha pen I was sold
in Lynchburg when Mr george Payne went
away please to Answer it as soon as you
can and buy me if you please. I shall
Depend on you.

Martha Pen
your humble

servant

Lynchburg Va

And now for my plea!

I want to urge every student and alumna
of Sweet Briar College to begin this de-
lightful treasure hunt for old letters and to
give their finds to us. Begin first in your
own family. Search in attics, in old trunks,
in desks, and perhaps in secret drawers.
If you have no luck in your own house,
try your uncles and your cousins. There
is almost always some one in the connec-
tion who keeps letters, and is interested in
family history. Try to find out what has
become of your great-grandfather's cor-
respondence, and your great-grandmother's
love letters. Do you like mystery stories?
Then set yourself to this detective work.
Are you fascinated with tales of buried
treasure? Then seek this treasure trove.
Once interested in your own ancestral past,
almost inevitably you would be led, I think,
further afield. We are all — almost all —
transplanted Europeans. Surely the ad-
venturer to America, from whom you
sprang, must have written back home!
Stowed away somewhere, in Plymouth per-
haps, or Devon, in a village in Holland, or
of Germany, of Ireland, or of Scotland,
lie letters telling all sorts of interesting
things about American life. Oh! I want
so much to get those letters from the New
World to the Old. If you could find some
of those, you see what a contribution you

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Alumnae News

Of Books No End

By Florence H. Robinson

(Editor's Note — Your editor announces with the greatest pleasure a new and permanent depart-
ment of the Alumnae Neics, to be known by the title "Of Books No End." This department is under
the direction of the Educational Committee of tire Sweet Briar branch of the American Association
of University Women. Dr. Florence H. Robinson, who is the chairman of this committee, has writ-
ten the following article. We are indeed glad to welcome her as a regular contributor to our maga-
zine, and we feel sure that her efforts ivill be more than appreciated by the alumnae.)

BELIEVING that the Sweet Briar
alumnae are alert to take advantage
of opportunities to continue the in-
tellectual stimulus which they found
in college, it occurred to the Educational
Committee of the Sweet Briar Branch of
the American Association of University
Women that perhaps it might be of service
toward this end. We hope we can bring
to you something which will revivify the
memory of campus days and will help in
carrying on through the after-college days,
in the leisure of your own home, the
reading habits formed in college; and we
ask you to send to the Alunmae Secretary
suggestions concerning subjects of interest
to you on which you might care to have
guided reading lists recommended by mem-
bers of the faculty whose co-operation we
shall seek. If this new department of the
Alumnae News could become an informa-
tional clearing house in the ever-widening
scope of knowledge through the means ot
book lists suggested for systematic reading
we should feel that we were making a
promising contact between the college and
its alumnae on the common ground of our
deeper needs and desires for cultural de-
velopment.

Fortunately education does not end with
four years at college and the bachelor's
degree. That is the true inwardness of the
term "Commencement" for the graduation
ceremony. Adult education applies to all,
not only to those whose opportunities have
been few, but also to those who have a
college education with a degree or degrees
that are in no sense terminal boundaries
of knowledge or culture. Professor E. L.
Thorndike's psychological experiments in
adult learning indicate that between the
ages of twenty-five and forty-five we learn
better than ever before and that the learn-
ing efficiency of the human adult at sixty
years of age is eighty-eight per cent. Why,

then, should we not make the continuation
after college of the intellectual interests of
undergraduate days a fundamental bond
between alumnae and Alma Mater?

And so we have chosen as our text Ec-
clesiastes 12:12: "Of making many books
there is no end," and this department of
the Alumnae News purposes to bring to
your attention books for profitable and
pleasurable reading in various fields, be-
ginning in this issue with books on travel.
Perhaps you will be journeying far afield
next summer or on some cruise next winter
and can find help for preliminary reading
in the list below. If you remain at home
during the summer you may still enjoy
the experience of intellectual excursions
into sundry places throughout these months
of spring and on into the summer. In the
June issue we plan to suggest books for
summer reading.

The American Association of University
Women has been a pioneer in the field of
adult education for college women and
has developed during the last decade ex-
ceptionally fine offerings in their publica-
tions and book service facilities. The scope
of these offerings is varied and wide-spread,
including such subjects as heredity: psy-
chology: mental hygiene, with particular
reference to childhood: child psvchology;
child development; play activities of chil-
dren; education of exceptional children;
adolescence; children's reading; socio-eco-
nomic studies; the new education and edu-
cational trends: the fine arts. If an)' of
tliese topics make a special appeal to you
we shall be glad to include them in our
future lists of recommended books. If your
alumnae clubs desire material for discus-
sion groups we can put you in touch ivith
the materials offered by the Association
for discussion groups in the form of re-
prints and reference pamphlets.

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Primarily, however, as we have already
said, the aim of this department is to keep
the aliminae in closer touch with the col-

lege and the faculty in our common pur-
suit of fntellectual interests and the con-
tinuing education which enriches all life.

Suggested Books On Travel

GREAT BRITAIN
Dark, Sidney,

Frank, Harry Alverson,
Palmer, William Thomas,

(Oxford)

FRANCE

Jais, Mrs. Regina

James, Henry,
Lucas, E. v.,

GERMANY

Letts, Malcolm,

ITALY

Dougles, Norman,
Haight, Elizabeth Hazleton
Johnstone, M. A.,
Lawrence, D. H.,
Lawrence, D. H.,
Symonds, Margaret, and
Duff Gordon, Lina,

SPAIN

Capek, Karel,

Riggs, Arthur Stanley,

GREECE

Burnell, F. H.,

Dixon, William Macneile,

iVIanatt, J. Irving,

Marden, Philip S.,

EGYPT

Van Dyke, John C,

PALESTINE

Fosdick, Harry Emerson,

Rostovtzeff, M.,

RUSSIA
Long, Ray,

London Town, (and others in series, KitbagTravelBooks)

George G. Harrap, London, 1930.

Footloose in the British Isles, N. Y., Century, 1932.

The English Lakes; their topography, historical and

literary landmarks.

N. Y., Farrar and Rinehart, 1932.

Handbook to the University of Oxford, Oxford University

Press, 1933.

Legendary France; Carcassone and the Basque Coimtry.
N. Y., Dial, 1931.

"An enthusiastic account of a leisurely tour from Alsace-
Lorraine to Paris, then on to Switzerland, the Riviera,
Provence and the Pyrenees."

A Little Tour in France, Boston, Houghton, 1912.
A Wanderer in Paris (and others in this series on other
countries) ; N. Y., Macmillan, 1924.

A Wayfarer in Central Germany, Boston, Houghton, 1931

Old Calabria, N. Y., The Modern Library, Inc., 1928.

Italy Old and New, N. Y., Dutton, 1922.

Etruria Past and Present, London, Methuen, 1930.

Etruscan Places, Viking, 1932.

Sea and Sardinia, London, Martin Seeker, 1925.

Perugia, London, Dent, 1927 (and others in the

Mediaeval Towns series).

Letters from Spain, tr. by Paul Selver,

N. Y., Putman, 1932.

The Spanish Pageant, Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1928.

Wanderings in Greece, N. Y., Longmans, 1931.
Hellas Revisited, London, Edward Arnold, 1930.
Aegean Days, London, John Murray, 1918.
Greece and the Aegean Isles, Boston, Houghton, 1907.

In Egypt; Studies and Sketches Along the Nile,
N. Y., Scribners, 1931.

A Pilgrimage Through Palestine, N. Y., Macmillan, 1931
Caravan Cities, tr. by D. and T. Talbot Rice, Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1932.

Travel Sketches written in 1928 during travel in Syria,
Arabia and Palestine.

An Editor Looks at Russia, N. Y., Long and Smith, 1931.
"One unprejudiced view of the Land of the Soviets."

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Muldaven, Albert,

EUROPE, General
Powell, Edward Alexander,

FAR EAST

Der Ling, Princess,

Hedin, Sven,

Merrick, Henrietta Sands

Roerich, George N.,

Solosky, G. E.,

SOUTH AMERICA
Paris, John Thomson,
Peck, Annie Smith,

CARIBBEAN SEA
Freeman, Lewis Ransome

MEXICO

Chase, Stuart,
Morris, Ann Axtell,

Morris, Earl H.,

UNITED STATES AND
CANADA

Barker, Mrs. Ruth Laughlin,

Davies, Blodwen,
Finger, Charles Joseph,

Haring, Harry Albert,
Winn, Mary Day,

The Red Fog Lifts, N. Y., Appleton, 1931.
"The author is little concerned with economic or political
policy, but he tells what he saw and what he heard
while meeting people of all classes."

Undiscovered Europe, N. Y., Ives Washburn, 1932.
"Ten isolated Lilliputian States entertainingly described''
— Albania, Andorra, Danzig, Estonia, Latvia, Lichten-
stein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, San Marino.

Jade and Dragons, N. Y., Mohawk Press, 1932.
Jehol, City of Emperors, tr. from the Swedish by
E. G. Nash, iN. Y., Dutton, 1933.
In the World's Attic, N. Y., Putman, 1931.
A trip from Srinagar to Leh in the Himalayan country.
The unusual experiences of an American woman.
Trails to Inmost Asia, five years of exploration with the
Roerich Central Asian Expedition, New Haven, \ale Uni-
versity Press, 1931.

The Tinder Box of Asia. Garden City, Doubleday,
Doran, 1932.

"China's resistance to world pressure, the conflict of
powers and interests, of peoples and ideas, among hun-
dreds of millions of human beings, is the burden of this
book."

Seeing South America, N. Y., Revell, 1931.

Flying Over South America; twenty thousand miles by

air, Boston, Houghton, 1932.

"This is an account of a journey, made by the author at

the age of seventy-nine, over and to all the countries of

South America at that time accessible by commercial

plane. Her narrative is made more interesting because

of the fact that she had known the country and had

climbed some of the highest peaks of the Andes, which

she was now- viewing from another angle."

Afloat and Aflight in the Caribbean, N. Y., Dodd, 1932.

Mexico; a study of two Americas, N. Y., Macmillan, 1931
Digging in Yucatan, Garden City, Doubleday,
Doran, 1931.

The Temple of the Warriors; the adventure of exploring
and restoring a masterpiece of native American archi-
tecture in the ruined Maya city of Chichen-Itza, Yucatan,
Scribners, 1931.

Caballeros, N. Y., Appleton, 1931.

The Southwest — New Mexico.

Romantic Quebec, N. Y., Dodd, 1932.

Footloose in the West; being an account of a journey to

Colorado and California and other western states, N. Y.,

Morrow, 1932.

Our Catskill Mountains, N. Y., Putnam, 1931.

The Macadam Trail: ten thousand miles bv motor coach,

N. Y., Knopf, 1931.

"Through thirty-four states from coast to coast of the

United States."

Sweet Briar College

Kate Strauss

America and Sweet Briar

By Kate Strauss

(Editor's Note — Fraulein Kate Strauss of Berlin-Dahlem, who has completed one year's work at
Frederich-Wilhelm Universitat, Berlin, is the student sent to Sweet Briar this year by the Institute of
International Education. J

America! Since September 1931 my
life stood under the sign of this
word, all my thoughts circulated
around it. This word America, what did
it include? hope! adventure! people! a
new country! yes, absolutely everything a
heart desires.

I think it might interest you to know
what one has to do to become an exchange
student. It was one evening in autumn,
at a garden party, — I remember every bit
of it, — when I heard that there was a possi-
bility for young people to go to America.
I really don't know why I was so fasci-
nated by the idea of America. Was it the
"Wanderlust" that is in every young per-
son, was it curiosity, was it the remem-

brance of a nice young American I once
met, or was it just a sort of a play with
an idea, that never is going to fulfil itself,
that made me go already the next day to
the German Academic Exchange office? I
left it rather discouraged, in my hand two
long sheets of paper full of questions and
in my ears the not very hopeful words,
"hundreds are trying the same." The first
thing I did was to study the questions. I
found out that I had to bring a doctor's
certificate proving my good health, that I
had to pass an English examination at tlie
University, that I had to have two pro-
fessors and two other well known people,
who would give a reference about my
mental and other abilities, and at last that

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I had to write why I would like to go to
America. All these things kept me busy
up to November when I sent my applica-
tion in, promising myself not to be disap-
pointed if it did not turn out satisfactorily.
It was in the beginning of the new year
that I heard I was accepted from the Ger-
man side and that my papers travelled
over to America. Since that moment I
was full of hope and a lovely and interest-
ing time started; for all students, who were
accepted for 7\xnerica, England, Spain,
Italy and France met once a week, dis-
cussing problems, which might be interest-
ing for us in regard to foreign countries
and which were supposed to make us able
to answer questions that did not belong
absolutely to our field. Reports were
given about various political, social, and
economic questions, and the evening usual-
ly ended in a long exciting discussion. It
was the second of May, — I never shall
forget this date, — that I got a letter, telling
me that I was accepted as the first German
exchange student in Sweet Briar. "Sweet
Briar, a girls' college with about 500 stu-
dents, beautifully situated at the foot of
the Blue Ridge Mountains." This was
what the letter said, and I did not get to
hear much more until I actually was in
Sweet Briar. The siunmer passed by
quickly with studying and preparations, or
I better put it the other way round. Short-
ly before we left, all the exchange students,
also those who were exchanged years ago,
came together for three days in the beau-
tiful old castle at Kopenick, and for three
days you could see in the lovely park of
this place groups of young people standing
together and the "old generation" told the
young ones how to behave, and what to do
in a foreign country. They told us about
the systems here, made us curious and a
bit scared too. These days in Kopenick
belong to those hours in our lives that we
never will forget. We listened to speeches
of famous people, we heard words as re-
sponsibility, fatherland, nationalism, inter-
nationalism, and it is only here in America,
that I slowly start to understand the deep
meaning of those words. These camp days
were followed by ten lovely days on the
boat, together with thirty other students
who were just as full of hope as I myself.
The days passed slowly, we gazed into the
water and gazed into the sky, realizing how
far America is away from Europe. New

York greeted us with rain and our mood
was influenced by the sad nature; for we
had to say goodbye to people we liked and
who were very dear to us, and a big ques-
tion mark was all that was left. America
began. America, give me a chance!

And now I am here in this lovely spot
and today I am asked to give you my re-
action on an American girls' college, my
opinion, the opinion of one of these con-
ceited continental people, boasting with
their tradition and their culture. But in
forming my opinion, which is by far not
formed yet, I always tried to forget Eu-
rope, I always tried and still try not to
compare — six months is a very short time
to judge a place, and knowing that the
opinion I had after the first month turned
to the contrary in the second and changed
again in the third and so on, I do ask you
not to take my lines I write tonight as gos-
pel or my idea about America as fixed, for
it wants a long, long time to face a land
as vast and as chaotic as yours, and even
an institution as small and yet as many
sided as Sweet Briar.

To pick out some facts that strike me
most I have to say first that we abroad have
no idea about the beautiful campus and
lovely buildings an Amercan college has,
we in our over-crowded country never
think a second of the possibility of a cam-
pus as vast and beautiful as Sweet Briar's.
But this is a mere exterior fact. The in-
terior fact, that is in my opinion, the most
striking is the community life of the stu-
dents and the relation between professors
and students. Of course there are some
people who criticize, that it is not right to
shut people up, that they don't see any-
thing of the world outside, its activity and
its ugliness; perhaps that is a disadvantage,
but first of all they see and feel it early
enough and secondly, it is balanced by this
complex, intense community life, which
otherwise never could be carried on. This
strong feeling in most of the students to
keep up the honor of the school, the belief
in the people they elected to guide them,
all these things we hardly know in our
country, where the individual plays such a
great role, that hardly anybody is able to
subordinate himself; and in this commu-
nity education lies, according to my idea,
the strength of a nation, in regard to the

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Life In Germany

By Delia Ann Taylor, '34

(Editor's Note — Delia Ann Taylor who is spending her junior year at the University of Munich
w-ill return to Sweet Briar next fall for her senior year. She has written this article about her life
in Germany and later she will write an article giving the details of her work at the University.)

mention the museums and art galleries.

MUNICH is a wonderful cit)-. I have
loved it ever since my first taxi-
ride froin the station — a ride that
I remember as a succession of fountains
and very clean streets. That was on a
hot day back in August — perhaps that's
why the fountains pleased me so — and
since then I have made friends with Munich
and a part, at least, of its people.

Munich is loveliest in summer when the
wide squares are bright and sun-filled and
the tiny crooked cobble-stoned streets with
their arches and "bridges" are cool and
shady. Flowerboxes at the windows, at
almost every window, make bright splashes
on the gray old buildings. Bright-splashed,
too, are the streets — bright with the gay
dress of the Bavarian peasants: women in
bright-banded black skirts and quaint hats,
and men in short leather trousers with
beautifully embroidered '"suspenders."

On summer week-ends, the railroad sta-
tion is the busiest place in all Munich. A
comitless number of third class excursion
trains, filled, really filled, with a countless
number of Munich families, each with its
quoto of suchsacks and walking sticks,
leave for those most wonderful mountains,
the Bavarian Alps. Each family, arrived
at what it thinks is a proper destination,
clambers out of the train, is off for one,
two, or three days of nandering. I, my-
self, have tried it, and Fm sure one of my
most pleasant memories of Germany will
be of my week-ends in the mountains — a
memory of bright, sim-filled days spent in
a sun-filled land.

Munich, in the winter, is quite another
Munich. A whiter, quieter, somehow an
older Munich. One of the nicest parts
about winter in Munich is the theater and
music. These two must help to make
Munich the educational center it is. There
is certainly a varietv and abundance of
both. In the theater, for example, I have
seen not only German works, classic and
modern, but translations from English,
Scandanavian, even Russian. And then there
is the opera and concerts galore, not to

Last October, all twenty of Munich's
American "juniors", having worked right
loyally at grammar drill for eleven weeks,
took what we, at least, called a "well-
earned vacation": a trip to Niirnberg and
Rothenburg. When I'm a grandmother
I think I shall live in Niirnberg, just
because of the Christmases and birth-
days that require boxes full of toys; just
because of Christmases and birthdays and
because of the Lebkuchen. They say that
Lebkuchen. is only gingerbread, but if that
is so, I never realized the possibilities of
"only gingerbread."

Niirnberg mothers tell Niirnberg chil-
dren that one Christmas Eve, Santa Glaus,
worn out from his work, sat down on his
sled, amidst a load of toy houses, and fell
asleep. While he slept, the tiniest of his
reindeer took fright at a cloud and jumped.
The team bolted, the sled overturned, and
Santa and his houses fell out on the snow.
The good Saint had to run after his team
and left the houses where they had fallen.
There was Niirnberg!

Rothenburg and Dinkelsbiihl are fairy-
tale towns. You don't believe them till
you see them and then not quite, somehow.
They're tiny little places, both of them.
We walked around the wall of Rothenburg
in half an hour. But if you want to see
the town — all of its crooked little streets
that stumble into one another; all of its
lovely, tiny courts; its marvelous beaker
of the Meistertrunk; if you want to admire
that wonderful old art of Inn-signs; if you
want to know Rothenburg, it will take days
and days.

But our da)'s were limited. We had to
get back to Munich and the University — to
Munich and its theater and concerts and
operas; back to the city of festivals and
Gemiitlickkeit; back to days that are full
as my days never have been; for, you see,
we have only one year in which to do it
all — work and play — and we want to do
it as the Germans do, and see it as the
Germans see it.

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Courtesy College Art Association

Peacock Feathers

By J. Alden Weir,
N. A.

Lent by the
Macbeth Galleries

From the Art Department

During the early part of February there
was a display of great interest in the ex-
hibit hall of tlie Mary Helen Cochran
Library. This display consisted of a large
number of excellent reproductions of the
woodcuts of Albrecht Durer, the famous
German artist. Durer, who lived in the
late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries,
is almost as well known for his woodcuts
as for his paintings. His subjects were for
the greater part religious. Following this
display there was a collection of sixteenth
century woodcuts on view in the exhibit
hall.

The college is again privileged to have
the Traveling Exhibition of the College
Art Association. There will be forty can-
vasses on display from April 17-29, de-
picting the "Background of American
Paintings." This collection has for its
purpose to show examples of the schools
in which American artists have worked and
in a measure to trace their influence to the
present day. The display begins with the
Hudson River School and continues up to
the present day showing the traditional
background upon which contemporary
American art is based, including paintings

by Winslow Homer, Albert Ryder, Thomas
Eakins, Duveneck, Inness, Childe Hassam,
Blakelock, Twachtman, Chase Davies and
many others. The Metropolitan Museum
of Art and the Macbeth Galleries have
loaned the canvasses of Landscape and
Marine Painting of the Hudson River
School. Colonial or Folk Painting is to
be shown by works loaned from the New-
house and Downtown Galleries. The Ehrich
Galleries have loaned pictures showing the
English influence in Portrait and Figure
Painting, while the Babcock Galleries have
loaned portraits to show the influence of
the Munich School. The Ferargil Galleries
have loaned several portraits to show the
French influence. Works displaying the
Post-Impressionist Movement will be loaned
from the Kraushaar Gallery and the Grand
Central Art Galleries. The present-day in-
fluences will be shown from works from
the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henri,
the Kraushaar Gallery, and the Macbeth
Galleries.

This is the largest exhibit of painting
that has ever been on display at Sweet
Briar and will require not only the Art
Room, but also the parlors in Fergus Reid
to show adequately the forty canvasses.

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The May Day Traditions

By Mary Elizabeth Suttle, '34

(Editor's Note — Mary Elizabeth Suttle is the Editor of The Brambler and twice a member of
the Sweet Briar May Court.)

"With roses, red roses ive'll pelt her with
roses.
And lilies, ivhite lilies ive'll drop at her
feet."

In only two more months the strains of
this, our traditional song, will sound
through the Dell, beautiful in its spring
glory of dogwood and redbuds, ushering
in another May Day at Sweet Briar. Once
again they will come, two by two, des-
cending under green trees to the throne,
lovely girls, dressed in fresh spring colors,
carrying spring flowers, looking like
Spring itself. A hush falls, "The May
Queen is coming" — again the strains of the
song sound clear and sweet. Another May
Queen, the loveliest girl in her class, has
come to receive her crown of flowers, has
come to personify for all those present
the beauty of youth in Springtime. May
Day at Sweet Briar has always been cele-
brated in this fashion.

Though we have always had a May Pole,
May Pole dancing and pageants we have
never had a strictly Elizabethan May Day.
True, those former May Days had some-
thing more of the Elizabethan spirit. Those
of us who are here now often wish that we
might have seen May Day in the Boxwood
Circle where the peacock spread his tail
of green and blue and gold before the
throne, and Robin Hood and his merry men
frolicked in the Dell.

Although this celebration is character-
istically English it is by no means unique
to the English people. In every country,
in France, or Spain, or Russia, in every
clime and every age from time immemorial
the first of May has been a great country-
side festival. It has different aspects in
different localities but it became in most
places a celebration symbolizing fertility
and the annual rebirth of vegetation.

The modern festival has its origin in the
Floralia of the Romans, a festival in honor
of Flora, goddess of flowers. But the idea
underlying it is still more remote in the dim
ages of antiquity when tree worship was
practiced and every tree was believed to be
the home of a beneficent tree spirit. Then

it was a religious ceremony, inspired by
love of nature.

However, it is in the English May Day
that we are most interested and it is, per-
haps, in England that the festival takes its
fullest shape. Here spring meant release
from care, from stuffy, unpleasant houses to
vast woods and sweet fields transformed
so suddenly from winter bleakness. The
festival is as old as the land itself, as old
as the ceaseless rebirth of the land in
spring. But it is only from the fifteenth
century on that references in literature
make our knowledge of it complete. Per-
haps, if we should use our very best pair
of rose colored glasses, we might look
back and see an Old English May Day.
We should see the Queen, the most beau-
tiful girl in the community, dressed in
white, garlanded with flowers. We should
see Robin Hood in his grass green tunic.
Maid Marian in green and brown, lovely
maidens scattering flowers. Little John,
Friar Tuck, and all the joyous fellowship
of Sherwood Forest. It is hard to explain
how Robin Hood got into the May Games.
One theory is that he is a mythological
figure, portraying an aspect of a vegeta-
tion diety or a minor wood spirit. This is
hardly possible for we have no evidence
that he was ever regarded as the incarna-
tion of fertility. There is another more
probable theory. In the French "pastour-
elles," which were songs sung at this sea-
son, the names "Robin" and "Marian"
were used. These names, no doubt, were
introduced by the minstrels and trans-
ferred to the corresponding English May
Game. The similarity of the name Robin
to Robin Hood would naturally bring in
all the band.

Before May Day had even dawned, the
people went out into the woods and fields
to return bearing flowers and May branches
with which they decorated their houses and,
most important of all, they brought back
the May Tree, which was now raised on
the green. If we should again use our rose
colored glasses we should see the oxen,
twentv yoke of them, their horns decorated

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May Queens

The First Four May Queens — as they are today- — with the Queen of 1933

Top Left — Ann Royall. ex-"10. the first Queen. 1907. Top Right — Maiy Brooke Grant, ex-Tl,
the second Queen, 1908. Center — Sara JMaria Kelly, the Queen of 1933. Lower Left—
Josephine Murray Joslin. '11, the only student to be a May Queen twice. 1910 and again
1911. Lower Right— Margaret Cobb Perkins, ex-12, the third Queen, 1909.

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with nosegays, dragging in the flower
decked pole. Then all the youths and
maidens with flying feet and flying hair
wound the streamers, while the Queen
looked on in stately but boring grandeur.
Nor would the day be complete without
a play. The Robin Hood and St. George's
plays were most popular, though Masques
were also given. One play, called "Robin
Hood and the Friar," has this foreword:
"Here Beginnethe the Playe of Robyn
Hoode, verye proper to be played at Maye
Games." After the play there would be
morris dances until sunset, and everyone
went home tired but happy — back to their
plebeian tasks, from which there would be
no relief mitil the next fair or festival.

Later Maying generated in the villages
and became usually a mere beer swilling. It
also found its way to the court and became,
under the Tudors, a sumptuous pageant,
filled with learned, allegorical and pseudo-
classic references. Elizabeth was as fond
of Maying as the lowest of her subjects
and even in earlier times the court cele-
brated May Day. Chaucer says:
"Laura goeth all the court both moste and

leste
To fetche the floures freshe and braunche

and blome."

In the Arthurian romance of Malory
Guinevere is taken by Sir Meliagraunce
while Maying. "As the Queen had Mayed
and her knights, all were bedashed with
herbs, mosses and flowers in the best man-
ner and freshest."

At the time of the Puritan ascendency
the May Festival bore its share of the at-
tack against liberties and pleasures. How-
ever, the custom was too deep-rooted in the
folk mind of the people and the Puritans,
despairmg of abolishing the festival, tried
to reform it. One May song they changed
so that it reads piously thus:

"Remember us poor Mayers all.
And thus we do begin
To lead our lives in righteousness
Or else we die in sin."

Now that we have looked back with the
aid of our very best rose colored glasses,
how pleasant it would be to look ahead to
future May Days at Sweet Briar. But not
even the rose colored glasses can accom-
plish that. All that we may know is that
so long as spring is beautiful in the hills
of Virginia so will our May Day be in-
creasingly lovely in the gracious tradition
of the South. In the words of an old carol,
"So God bless ) ou, both great and small.
And send you a joyful May."

May Day, 1933

Miss Sara Marie Kelly has been elected
May Queen. The three Honor girls elected
for the May Court are: Lena Jones, Maid
of Honor, Josephine Rucker, Garland
Bearer, and Elena Doty, Scepter Bearer.

The May Queen and her Honor girls
have chosen for the court the following:
seniors, Margaret Austin, Susalee Belser,
Dorothy Brett, Ruth Davies, Emily Denton,
Lois Foster, Susan Graves, Ellen Kelly,
Marjorie Ris, Abigail Shepard, and Lang-
horne Watts: juniors, Frances Darden,
Lydia Goodwin, Jean Myers, Cordelia

Penn, Elizabeth Sutlle, and Bonnie Wood;
sophomores, Sarah Moorman, Ellen Pratt,
Virginia See, Bernice Elizabeth Thompson
and Louise Wood. The Queen's Page will
be Mary Kate Patton. The freshmen pages
will be chosen later.

Margery Gubelman has been selected by
the Queen to lead the May Day dance and
she will be assisted by Geraldine Mallory.

"Sanctuary" — A Bird Masque — by Percy
MacKaye will be given on May Day fol-
lowing the crowning of the Queen.

Alumnae News

Concerts and Lectures

ON Friday evening, January 13, Eliza-
beth Copeland, '30, soprano, and
Philip W. Whitfield, bass-baritone,
gave a song recital in the Chapel. This
event was of special interest due to the fact
that Miss Copeland is the first graduate to
return to the college to give such a recital.
The songs sung by Miss Copeland which
were best liked were perhaps "Se Florinde
e fedele," by Scarlatti, and "Spring," by
Hilton Rufty. From this one may well see
that the program was one of great variety.
Her voice is of lovely quality and all of
her work is characterized by her personal
charm. Mr. Whitfield has a powerful
voice, well controlled, dramatic and color-
ful and with a wide range. Of all the
songs ivhich he gave "Ewig" by Eric Wolff
will remain long in the memory of those
who heard him. Miss Copeland and Mr.
WTiitfield gave two duets from the operas
Don Giovanni, "La ci darem la mano,"
and "Crudel! 'perche fin 'ora" from Le
Nozze di Figaro by Mozart. These were
sung with all the wit and charm which
their interpretation demands and were
greatly appreciated by the audience. More
than twenty-five alumnae from Lynchburg
and Amherst returned to the college for
this occasion and remained for the recep-
tion in Fergus Reid Parlors in honor of
the artists after their program.

Mr. Max Montor, noted German actor,
gave a varied program of dramatic inter-
pretations, in Fletcher auditorium on Sat-
urday evening, January 14. Mr. Montor
is internationally known for his unusual
interpretations of drama and poetry. For
the benefit of those unacquainted with the
German language he gave in English a
verv brief summary of the contents of each
selection, which proved helpful to his au-
dience. His program was as follows:

Goethe: ''Prolong im Himmel" aus
Faust.

Schiller:

Lessing:
Scene II).

Schiller: Kapuzinerpredigt aus "Wall-
ensteins Lager."

Shakespeare-Lessing "Tolerance better

Die Kraniche des Ibykus.
Minna von Barnholm (Act IV,

Elizabeth Copeland, '30

than Hatred" (Selections from "Merchant
of Venice" and Nathan the Wise).
Goethe: "Schuler-scene" aus Faust.

As an encore, Mr. Montor chose the im-
pressive scene from Shakespeare's "Henry
VIII" in which Cardinal Wolsey, dismissed
by Henry VIII, reveals his utter humility
and sad loneliness to his friend, Cromwell.

Mr. Philip Guedalla, the internationally
known biographer and lecturer, spoke Fri-
day evening, February 10, in the Chapel,
on the "Limitations of Biography." "Bio-
graphy," said Mr. Guedalla, "is the accu-
rate presentation of what the subject of
the biography said, did, wrote, looked like,
and a description of the scenes in which
he took part." Mr. Guedalla discussed the
differences which distinguish the writing
of history and biography. "It seems that
dullness is a certificate of accuracy in the
writing of history," Mr. Guedalla said,
"whereas the biographer is allowed to ex-
press himself in a style which is more in-

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teresting for the reader, but which is also
faithful to the facts involved." Mr. Gue-
dalla deplored the mass production of
biography which is taking place at the
present time. He lamented the fictionized
and inadequate biographies which are
being produced and expressed the hope
that more carefull)' written biographies
would appear in the future. The lecture
was characterized by a charming, radiant
personality which made itself felt to every-
one who heard him.

On Friday evening, February 17, Walter
Pach, artist, writer, and lecturer spoke, in
the Chapel, on "Daumier." Mr. Pach's
reputation as a painter and etcher has been
steadily growing and is only overshadowed
by his renown as a critic and writer on art
subjects. He has written several books,
and has lectured, among other places, at
the Metropolitan Museum in New York,
the University of California, and the Na-
tional University of Mexico. The lecture
was illustrated with many interesting slides
of Daumier's work.

Madame Elizabeth Schumann, one of the
world's greatest lieder singers, appeared at
Sweet Briar Friday night. February 24, and
presented the most perfect program, from
tlie standpoint of her art, that the college
has heard in many years. Madame Schu-
mann is leading lyric soprano of the Staat-
soper in Vienna and has suns; in most of
the capitals of Europe as well as on both
American continents.

With the exception of two English songs.
''The Shoemaker"' by Arnold Bax and
"Lullaby" by Cyril Scott, all of her songs
were by German composers and sung in
German. There were groups of songs by
Schubert. Schumann, Brahms and Strauss
and one b)' Gustav Mahler. Madame Schu-
mann sang with finish of technique and a
consequent beautv of tone which is rarelv
heard by any audience. Her perfect con-
trol in pianissimo passages was particu-
larly noticeable in Gustav Mahler's "Wer
hat Dies' Liedlein Erdacht?" and again in
"Feldeinsamkeit" by Brahms.

Especially to be mentioned were the
melodies characteristic of Schubert, which
gave her opportunity to display her flute-
like clarity and perfect intonation. "Du
Bist Die Rub" and "Wohin" were outstand-
ing examples of this group. Also Brahms'

Madame Schumann

■'Wiegenlied" was a favorite with the au-
dience and was repeated by Madame Schu-
mann.

Madame Schumann's art was well sup-
ported by Richard Wilens' accompaniment.

The Hampton Institute Quartet gave a
song recital in the Chapel on Sunday even-
ing, March 5. The singers, who are recog-
nized as being in the front rank of Negro
spirituals singers, have appeared at Sweet
Briar several times and are always greeted
by an appreciative audience.

Maurice Hindus, noted writer and lec-
turer, spoke on Friday evening, March 10,
in the Chapel. His topic was "A World
that Never Was." Returning from a seven
months stav in Russia. Mr. Hindus is mak-
ing a lecture tour of the country. His
speech showed that mankind has never
known a world such as the Russians are
creating today; that religion, the modern
famil)' and other familiar institutions are
being uprooted. He told what is being
substituted for them, and traced the
changes that have come over various types
of people since the coming of Sovietism.
Also he showed the relations between Rus-
sia and America, England, and other na-
tions.

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Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck will speak on
Thursday evening, Maixh 16, in the Chapel
on "A Chapter in International Relation."
Dr. Hornbeck has been Chief of the Divi-
sion of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of
State since 1928. He was a member of the
Political Science Department at the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin for six years and
from 1909-1913 he was Instructor in Chi-
nese Government Colleges. For four years
he lectured on the History of the Far East
at Harvard. He has been the expert ad-
visor to various American diplomatic Com-
missions, including the Peace Conference
Commission of 1918-19, and the Washing-
ton Conference Commission of 1921-22.
He is an author of various books including

"Contemporary Politics in the Far East"
and "China Today — Political."

On March 17 Frank Kneisel will give a
violin recital. He is the son of a famous
father and is himself making a place which
is all his own. He has been spoken of as
deserving to be listed among the few dis-
tinguished violinists.

Dr. English Bagbie, Professor of Psy-
chology at the Lniversity of North Caro-
lina, will lecture on April 9 in the Chapel
on "Personality." This lecture is consid-
ered by those who have heard it to be un-
usually interesting and of great value as
Dr. Bagbie has a keen understanding of
students and is well equipped to discuss
such a topic. Before going to the Univer-
sity he was previously on the Yale faculty.

The Honor Banquet

THE annual Honor Banquet took place
on the evening of Thursday, March
2. Dr. Morriss, Dean of Pembroke
College in Brown University, spoke on
"The Place of Scholarship in These Chang-
ing Times."

"The two great needs at present," she
said, "are for knowledge and leadership.
Scholars were never more needed. I real-
ize that you are not all going to be schol-
ars, very few of you really, but you are
a picked group of young women, picked
from within a larger picked group, and
chosen presumably for your intellectual
point of view. How far can you, with your
trained intelligence and your love for and
appreciation of the best in human life and
history, serve your own generation and
preserve for the next the standards of your
race?"

Dean Morriss outlined three aspects of
the great need for scholarship in these
changing times, the first being the practical
application of trained intelligences to the
ordinary relationships of home and family
life.

The second thing which should be clearly
stated in discussing the place of scholar-
ship in the modern world is, according to
Dean Morriss, the necessity of maintaining
the highest ideals of scholarship. There is

a terrible danger that the practical demands
of the present difficult period should swamp
the intangible needs of education and schol-
arship.

"The third possibility is that a few of
you may yourselves be scholars. This is
the highest hope of every educator. * * *
The pursuit of scholarship is a great adven-
ture. Let no one tell you that it is a dull
career. Instead of that thank your lucky
stars if you are marked out as a fortunate
one. You will have all the thrills of a
great discoverer. To you more than to
most people will come frequent compen-
sation for long days of routine and hard
work. * * " Without any question, it is
one of the happiest ways of life for any-
one. Do not scoff at the scholar; look at
him or her with envy instead. They are
people set apart for perhaps the most im-
portant service to mankind. You are not
all likely to be scholars. But all of you
can take a scholarly, that is to say an in-
telligent, attitude towards life; all of you
can uphold the importance of spiritual
values at all times. Maybe one or two of
you will yourselves be called to that noble
way of life — the scholar's career. It is the
scholar who fulfills the saying of LeMaitre,
the priest, who is a great physicist: "Seek-
ing for truth! Is that not service to God?"

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From the Athletic Department

Natalie Roberts, '31, has again been ap-
pointed the chairman for the Alumnae
Class for the May Day Horse Show, which
will be held this year on the morning of
May 5. No charge will be made for rid-
ing in the Horse Show. Entries must be
sent either to Natalie Roberts, Nestle Brook
Farm, Roanoke, Virginia, by April 15, or
to the alumnae office not later than May
first.

The Varisty Basketball season has closed
with the following results: Sweet Briar vs.
Farmville, 28 to 10 in favor of Farmville.
The William and Mary game was very
close with our team loosing by one point,
the final score being 18 to 17. The West-
hampton game we won by a score of 36
to 10. A different system and a different

type of game has been used by the team
this j'ear and a stead)' improvement has
been made from the first.

On Thursday evening, March 9, the stu-
dent dance class gave a Dance Demonstra-
tion in die gymnasium. More interest has
been shown in the dance groups this year
than ever before and the student volunteer
group is the largest one that has been en-
rolled in recent years. The faculty has
also had a dance group, which has met
every Thursday evening since the first of
December.

The courts in the gymnasium for tennis,
squash, deck tennis, ping-pong, and bad-
minton have been in constant use and all
of these activities continue to be a source
of enjoyment to both students and faculty.

7 HE Ideal hotel for
students and fdculty
members visiting Washing-
ton. Located on Capitol
Plaza only a few minutes
walk from the Capitol, Li-
brary ot Congress and Folger
Shakespeare Library. Con-
venient to shopping and the-
atre districts.

REASONABLE RATES

Excellent Service and
Cuisine

NO TIPPING

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WASHINGTON. D.C.

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London in a Day

THERE is a trite saying among Eng-
lishmen that in Trafalgar Square in
London you will meet everyone you
have ever known, provided of course, you
have time on your hands. And while it
would not be advisable for the visitor who
has only a day to spare in which to make
a hurried survey of London to spend it
standing in the shadow of Lord Nelson or
his column 142 feet above the street level,
it is nevertheless probably the very best
place to commence a tour of the world's
largest and probably most cosmopolitan
city.

Numerous coaches leave Trafalgar
Square daily, and a comprehensive itiner-
ary is followed at a very nominal charge.

The route they usually follow is along
Thames Embankment, erstwhile resting
place of genius: to Queen \ ictoria Street,
into the citv proper via Cannon Street and
by the Monument, which commemorates
the great fire of London of 1666 to famous
old London Bridge, opened in 1831, and
the busiest bridge in the Empire. The
route then leads to the Tower of London
nearby. Tower Hill, Trinity Square, All
Hallows Church. Barkins. Mansion House

I the Lord Mayor's official headquarters),
Royal Exchange, Threadneedle St. and the
Bank of England.

Thence on through the "City of London"
— (the "city" is only a very small area
actually I stopping to view St. Pauls Cathe-
dral, Ludgate Circus, Fleet Street — ("the
street of ink"), the Royal Courts of Justice,
Lincoln's Inn Fields, (immortalized by
Dickens in Martin Chuzzlewit and many of
his other masterpieces I and thence out of
the City into Whitehall, the renowiied
Horse Guards and Downing St., the Ceno-
taph, Houses of Parliament, Westminster
Abbey to Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park
and several of the most famous museums
in the world. The tour generally ends in
Oxford Street, the principal shopping cen-
ter of London.

Highlights on this trip are St. Pauls, the
Tower, the Horse Guards, (best seen at 11
A. M. when the historic ceremony of the
changing of the guard occurs I Westmin-
ster Abbey and Buckingham Palace and of
course the Bank of England.

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Sweet Briar College

Miss Stochholm's New Book

R. Johanne M. Stochholm, associate
professor of English, has just com-
pleted, as thesis for the degree of
degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Bryn
Mawr College, a critical annotated edition
of Philip Massinger's play, "The Great
Duke of Florence."

In the preface Miss Stohholm states that
the play "presents to the student a number
of interesting problems concerning its
sources and analogues, its historical back-
ground and its peculiar combination of
legendary material with topical allusions."
Miss Stochholm has traced the main motive
of the drama, the Edgar-AIfreda story,
from its first appearance in English lit-
erature to Massinger's play and also its

development from the period subsequent
to Massinger's version to the present day.
This Edgar-Alfreda motive is that of a
courtier wooing a maiden for his master,
but betraying his master b)' courting her
himself.

The date of the play depends on his-
torical and political allusions, several of
which have been newly brought to light.
Miss Stochholm says, "I have, I believe,
succeeded in dating the play more pre-
cisely than has hitherto been done. A
close examination of the play has con-
vinced me that in it are embedded numer-
ous allusions to events in Italian and Eng-
lish history during the first quarter of the
17tli century."

Dr. van R. Hoogendyk Visiting Professor

Dr. E. C. Scott, head of the chemistry
department, has been granted a Sabbatical
leave for the second semester of this ses-
sion. During his absence Dr. Van R.
Hoogendyk will assist in the department
as a visiting lecturer. Dr. Hoogendyk holds
the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry

from the University of Gottingen and has
done graduate work at the University of
Berlin. His teaching in this country in-
cludes work at the University of Colorado,
the University of Illinois, and at Bryn
Mawr College.

America and Sweet Briar

(Continued from Page 21)

state. You learn better than we to obey,
and to disobey one learns easily enough.
The other thing I pointed out was your
friendship with your teachers. Our uni-
versities are too overcrowded that a pro-
fessor could have a personal interest in the
students; only later, when they do special
work for him, they might become friendly,
but this is not the only reason. While your
country is from the root democratic, the
idea of rank plays still a great role in our
country, and a teacher has absolutely a
superior feeling which builds up a wall
between the student and him. Of course I
could go on and on telling about things I
love in a college in America, but I have to
limit myself because of the space I get in
this magazine and therefore after this fav-
orable criticism, allow me to mention a
thing with which I don't agree absolutely
and that is the system how you work, this
absolutely work for grades. Of course it
is a very natural instinct in man to do
somethino; for a reward, but I think one

should work a bit more for the interest of
the work. L'art pour Fart! Perhaps you
say I am wrong, and my observations are
false, but you talked too much about
grades, prizes and honor banquets for me
to get any other impression. You work in
the feeling that quizzes and examinations
hang above you, and you should try to find
something else in your work. Please don't
misunderstand me, but being asked to say
what I think I wanted to give the truth and
I hope you will understand me.

It is only another four months that I am
allowed to stay in this college, but I know
that I shall go back to Germany maturer
than I came, full of things I learned here
not only in regard to work and sports, but
in regard to people, to self confidence and
many other things, and I think there was
never a year and there will never be one
so full of events, so full of learning. Go-
ing back to Europe, I know that it will be
my task, out of my deepest conviction, to
tell my folk about your country, and its

good and great side.

Alumnae News

The American Alumni Council

THE annual meeting of District III of
the American Alumni Comicil was
held at Duke University, Durham,
North Carolina, February 24 and 25. At-
tending this meeting were the representa-
tives of colleges in the states of Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Virginia. President W. P.
Few of Duke University was the speaker
at the banquet, which was given by the
University to the visiting delegates. Presi-
dent Few in his address defined the pro-
cesses of education and pointed to the
privileges and responsibilities of alumni
to their alma maters. "True education,"
he said, "is self-education, and it is a life-
long process. Our colleges and our alumni
will be better off when they realize that a
student matriculates not four years or for
a prescribed course but for life. The high-
est ideal for the alumnus is his endeavor
not to find out what the college can do

for him, but what he can do for the col-
lege." Dr. Frank Graham, President of
the University of North Carolina, spoke at
the luncheon, giving many concrete ex-
amples of what almrini can do for their
colleges. The three points that Dr. Gra-
ham mentioned as being of vital import-
ance were "financial support, the right in-
terpretation of the college and its policies
to the public against misinterpretation,
and individual efforts to make good the
claim of education and in this crisis to
stand for it as fundamental in a democratic
society." At the business sessions prob-
lems common to all alumni associations
were discussed, and many helpful sugges-
tions were obtained by all secretaries pres-
ent. Your secretary, Mrs. Vivieime Barka-
low Breckenridge, '18, represented Sweet
Briar at this conference and was elected
the director for this district for the next
two years.

Old Letters

(Continued from Page 16)
could make to Sweet Briar, and through
her to tlie records of our past.

How is the best way to go about this?
That is not so easy to say. For each per-
son would have to. solve her own individual
problem. The best way, of course, to at-
tack the problem would be, I fancy, to
go to one's own source-village and investi-
gate in person. If that is impracticable,
the next best would be to write to the most
promising local official and ask his help;
with such assistance as you can get, state
your case in the newspaper of your an-
cestral neighborhood and ask letters and
data of such and such a man, at such and
such a date. I admit this is casting your
fly in an unknown stream. The fish may,
or may not strike, but is it not just this
mixture of skill and chance that gives the
charm to fishing — and researching?

Next, what is the most practical way of
making your contribution to Sweet Briar's
Source Material? The preliminary step
is to tell us what you have, letters, files of
newspapers, diaries, and let us estimate
their usefulness. There are many methods
of contributing. First and simplest is to
give us your papers outright. They will
always be available at Sweet Briar and
open to all members of the family. In

time, they will be catalogued. Second, you
can will them to us. Third, you can loan
them to us. This method is specially use-
ful if you have not carefully examined
them, and might wish the return of a legal
paper, and we in turn could see how
valuable the letters would be in social his-
tory. Fourth, you could give us photo-
static copies of such treasured letters as
the family is not willing to part from;
and last, and I think least, but still not a
negligible contribution, you might send us
a typewritten copy of such letters.

Whatever you send us, letters, diaries,
newspaper files, account books, we promise
to keep safely and profit by to the best of
our ability.

I feel that this piece of work that I am
asking of the alumnae of Sweet Briar is of
peculiar importance in this time of depres-
sion, for you will be creatmg values. The
letters bundled away in attics serve no use-
ful purpose; even when retrieved they
rarely have a market value; but here at
Sweet Briar, they will help history students
and history teachers to reconceive the past
in terms of common life. Simple though
the record may be, it will shine widi the
lustre that belongs to real things and to
real things only.

Sweet Briar College

The acquiring of this machine is still a great big ^ . Won't you please do your
bit towards making the campaign a success? Do not send only your own coupons,
but ask your friends for theirs.

Campus News

The presidents of the various organiza-
tions for 1933-34 are as follows: Student
Government, Julia Sadler: Y. W. C. A.,
Helen Bean; Athletic Association, Helen
Hanson; Paint and Patches, Anne Baker.

The Fellowship Fund Committee of the
A.A.U.W. sponsored the performance of
Sue Hastings Marionettes, "Winnie the
Pooh," which was given in the Chapel on
Friday evening, March 3.

On Wednesday evening. January 4, the
Ramages gave a housewarming at their new
home, Windymead, to which members of
tlie faculty were invited. The same hospi-

tality was extended to the students on the

following evening.

The Alumnae Office is still in need of the
following Briar Patches to complete the
file in the office: 1915, 1916, 1918, 1920,
192.5 and 1929. We are extremely anxious
to obtain these six books in order to bring
the set up to date.

The Sweet Briar Glee Club will give a
joint concert with the University of Vir-
ginia Glee Club on April 8 at the Uni-
versity. On April 28 the Glee Club will
go to Farmville for the Virginia State
Contest. It will be remembered that Sweet
Briar won this contest last year.

Alumnae News

Class Secretaries

THE Council announces with the great-
est pleasure the appointment of the
following girls, from the classes
1910 through 1929, to serve as Class Sec-
retaries. These appointments are effective
until the next class reunion as which time
those present will elect their own secretary.
The classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 elected
their own secretary prior to their gradua-
tion and these girls will serve until the
class holds its fifth reunion. Class Secre-
taries of the class now in college have been
elected and will serve until each class elects
a representative at the close of the senior
year.

1910— Annie Powell Hodges (Mrs. Wm.
T.), 47 Courtland Place, Meadow-
brook, Norfolk, Virginia.

1911 — Josephine Murray Joslin (Mrs. J.
Whitman, Jr.), 32 S. William
Street, Johnstown, New York.

1912— Elsie Zaegel Thomas (Mrs. I. C.j,
200 Euclid Avenue, Sheboygan,
Wisconsin.

1913 — Elizabeth Grammer Torrey (Mrs.
Donald P.), 530 Brookhurst Ave.,
Narbeth, Pennsylvania.

1914— Henrietta Washburn, 2030 Delaney
Place, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1915— Harriet Evans Wyckofif (Mrs. G.
Bernard), 3252 S. Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

1916 — Felicia Patton, Beechmoor, Catletps-
burg, Kentucky.

1917 — Virginia Sandmeyer Hudson (Mrs.
John H.), 1007 North Main Street,
Carrollton, Missouri.

1918— Margaret McVey, 1417 Grove Ave.,
Richmond, Virginia.

1919 — Louise Hammon Skinner (Mirs.
Frederick H.), 333-57th Street, New-
port News, Virginia.

1920— Dorothy Wallace, Chemestry De-
partment, Goucher College, Balti-
more, Maryland.

1921 — Maynette Rozelle Stephenson (Mrs.
James A. ) , 1220 Tecumseh Avenue,
South Bend, Indiana.

1922 — Burd Dickson Stevenson (Mrs.
Frederick J.), 5744 Solway Street,
P. 0. Box 1146, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania.

1923— La Verne McGee Onley (Mrs. Alfred
C, Jr.), 831 H Avenue, Coronado
Beach, California.

1924 — Eleanor Harned Arp (Mrs. Louis
Croft), 1525 29th Street, Moline,
Illinois.

1925 — Jane Becker Clippinger (Mrs. John
C), 4021 LaCrosse Lane, Cincin-
nati, Ohio.

1926— Mary Bristol Graham (Mrs. Law-
rence B.), Dorchester Road, East
Aurora, New York.

1927 — Pauline Payne, 233 Kevin Place,
Toledo, Ohio.

1928— Helen Davis, 507 West Second
Street, Muscatine, Iowa.

1929— Anna Torian, 1802 North Talbott
Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana.

1930— Merry Curtis, 606 South 11th Street,
Lafayette, Indiana.

1931— Martha von Briesen, 4436 North
Stowell Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis-
consin.

1932— Dorothy Smith, P. 0. Box 1395,
Charlottesville, Virginia.

1933 — Mary Elizabeth Clemens, Sweet
Briar, Virginia.

1934 — Connie Burwell, Sweet Briar, Vir-
ginia.

1935 — Eleanor Elliott, Sweet Briar, Vir-
ginia.

Money Isn't Everything

Money isn't everything — but if you can
suggest any other article that will finance
your Alumnae office and send you the
Alumnae News — then the question of
money or the payment of your dues will
never be mentioned between us again !

Sweet Briar College

Class Personals

ACADEMY

Mildred W aite Ehmann, accompanied by Mr.
Ehmanii, her mother and her son, visited the
campus early in Februaiy. She had just returned
from a trip to Portland. Oregon.

Katheleen Hodge Curtis has moved to Tucson,
Arizona, to live.

Marjorie Seeds Fletcher has moved to Clewis-
ton, Florida, to hve.

Barbara Trigg Brovs-n has returned from an
extended trip to Panama.

Carolyn O'Bannon Gulp has a son, Charles
William, born last November 13.

Helen Whitehill has announced her engage-
ment to Mr. Trever Kenyon of Long Island, New
York.

Cecelia Kelly Evans has moved to Camp Hill.
Pennsylvania, to live.

Helen Tucker Trimble has moved to Malvern,
Arkansas, to live.

Ruth Swan Patterson is now living in Scars-
dale, New York.

Margaret Potts Williams has moved to Shep-
herdstown. West Virginia, to live.

Marguerite Drew Crooner was manued on
January 17 to Mr. Karl Bardin.

Carolyn Gwathmey Davidson is living at Coro-
nado, California, where her husband. Commander
Davidson, is aide to Admiral Senn.

Ruth Harvey Keeling spent the early part of
Januaiy in New York City.
1910

Reunion 1933.

Annie Powell Hodges has moved to Noi-folk,
Virginia, to live where Dr. Hodges has charge of
the extension school of William and Mai-y.
1911

Reunion 1933.

1912

Reunion 1933.

1915

Dorothy Taylor, ex-'15, is regent of a D. A. R.
Chapter in East Orange. New Jersey, and is
National vice-chairman of publicity for the Na-
tional Society of the D. A. R.
1917

Margaret Gibson Bowman, ex-'17, sailed on
February 11 for a cruise to the West Indies
aboard the Conte Grande.
1918

Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge has recently
become a member of the National League of
American Pen Women.

1920

Isabel Webb Luff, accompanied by Mr. Luff,
stopped at the college for a day early in March.
1921

Shelley Rouse was married on December 31
to Mr. Nicholas Schuyler ,A.agesen, and has moved
to Davenport, Iowa, to live.

Mattie Hammond Smith has a daughter, born
on November 21.

]Mildred Ellis Reed, ex-'21, has taken a house
on Riverside Drive, Cocoa, Florida, for the sea-
son.

Eleanor Gould Peane, ex-'21. and her two
young daughter's, are spending some time in
Louisiana.

1922

Lillian Maddox Whitner took the part of Sally
Jenkins in the Junior League children's play,
"The Magic Wishbone-or-Chief-If-You-Wish-It,"
on February 10-11. at the Little Theatre in Char-
lotte, North Carolina.

Helen Anderson is now Mrs. Maurice Henkels
and has moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to live.
1923

Reunion 1933.

Helen Richards is the assistant librai'ian at
Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Virginia Stanberry Schneider has moved to
Stamford. Connecticut, to live.

Mary Chantler Hubbard is now living in Mar-
tinsburg. West Virginia.

Katherine Hancock Land has a son born last
fall.

La Verne McGee Olney flew to San Francisco,
recently to meet her husband who has returned
from Honolulu.

1924

Margaret Nelson Lloyd has a daughter, Eliza-
beth Nelson, boi-n early in Januai-y.

Helen Gaus is working for the Reconstruction
Finance Coi-poration in Columbus, Ohio.

Elizabeth Studlev Kirkpatrick, ex- '24, is spend-
ing the winter in Tucson, .Arizona.

Ruth Durrell Ryan. ex-'24, has moved to Port
Washington, Long Island, to live.

Blanche Quincey Stubbs. ex-'24, with Mr.
Stubbs, stopped at the college recently en route
to their home in Douglas, Georgia, from a motor
trip through the north.

1925

Elizabeth MacQueen Nelson has moved from
Scarsdale, New York, to Katonah, New York,
to live.

Mary Elizabeth Welch has moved to Nicholas-
viUe, Kentucky, to live.

Lucy Marion Reaves, in addition to being So-
ciety Editor of the Arkansas Gazette, is writing
a weekly column, chit chat of society folk.

Eleanor Gerrard, ex-'25, has several selections
of poeti-y included in The Spring Anthology.

Virginia Burke Miller, ex-"25, accompanied by
her two sons, is spending the winter at Lake
Worth, Florida.

Cordelia Kirkendall Buckman, ex-"25, was a
delegate to the Episcopal Convocation at the
Cathedral in Spokane, Washington, from Febru-
ary 5-8. She is doing relief work through the
church and Red Cross.

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1926

Poly Cai7 Dew Woodson, with Mr. Woodson
will sail the early part of April for Milan, Italy,
where they will be for about eight months.

Edna Lee Wood, accompanied by Mr. Wood,
spent ten days in Havana during the end of
January.

Margaret Posey announced her engagement to
Mr. Heniy Clarence Brubaker on Christmas Day.
The wedding will take place early in April.

Adelaide Douglas Rushton, accompanied by
Mr. Rushton and Sarah Everett Lee, "28, with
Mr. Lee, have returned from a trip to Miami,
and Havana, Cuba.

Elinor Green Conrad has a son, Francis Gregg,
born January 3.

Alberta MacQueen de Rouge is now living in
Hartford, Connecticut, and is doing social welfare
work there.

M. Joyce MacGregor is continuing her work
for the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education in
the Department of Curriculum Study and Educa-
tional Measurement and Research. At night she
plays in a dance orchestra.

Nell Atkins is studying child Psychology at
the University of Chicago this winter. She
teaches at the University of Cincinnati and has
a year's leave of absence.

Martha Bachman McCoy has a daughter, born
on February first.

Eleanor Ruhl Birchall, ex-"26, is now living in
Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Alumnae Association records with deep
regret the death of Dorothy Lipscomb Lee, ex-
"26.

1927

Louise Collins Schroeder has a son, Edward
John, in, born last November.

Esther Dickinson was married on February 4
to Mr. Buckley Robbins.

A daughter, Elizabeth Brown, was born to
Madeline Brown Wood, on December 1.5, in
Honolulu.

Virginia Wilson spent the month of February
visiting her sister, Georgia Wilson Mockridge,
ex-"30, at her home in New Jersey.

Elsetta Gilchrist has been giving a six-weeks
Studio Course for women interested in designing
or replanting their own gardens.

Margaret Green Runyon has a son. John Bar-
ton, born last fall.

Nancy Campbell. ex-'27. has moved to Laurel-
ton, Long Island, to live.

Pasqueline Bolder Rackley. ex-"27, has a son,
born recently.

1928

Reunion 1933.

Louis? Conklin Knowles has a daughter, Anne
Louise, born on Januaiy 25.

Louise Bristol Lindeman has a daughter. Sue,
born on February 21.

Virginia Van IFinkle Morlidge spoke on Sweet
Briar on January 17 before the Parent-Teacher

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meeting of the College Preparatory School in
Cincinnati.

Dorothy Bunting is doing secretarial work for
the Black Donald Graphite Company in Ontario.

Sarah Dance Krook and Mr. Krook visited
Grace Sunderland Kane at her home. Fort Ring-
gold, Texas, on their way to California in De-
cember.

Grace Sunderland Kane, accompanied by her
husband, spent ihe Christmas holidays in Mexico
City.

Barbaia Bruske Dewey, ex-"28, has a daughter,
Barbara, born January 4.

Elizabeth If'oodward Jeffers. ex-"28, has a son.
born in January.

1929

Annie Periy Neal has opened a law office al
her home in Lewisberg, North Carolina.

Hallet Gubelman is taking a course in wood
carving in Asheville, North Carolina, where she
is spending the winter.

Gertrude Prior is doing graduate work in Psy-
chology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Katherine Smith Boothe has a son. Garland
Cecil, Jr., born recently.

Kate Coe is studying drawing and painting
under Howard Giles at the Roerich Art School
in New York City.

Mary Archer Bean Eppes, with Mr. Eppes,
stopped at Sweet Briar on their way from Port

Alumnae News

Arthur, Texas, to spend the Christmas holidays
in Charlottesville. Virginia.

Anita Peters is working at the United States
Veterans" Hospital, Coatesville, Pennsylvania, as
psychiatric social worker.

Nora Lee .ALntrim is spending a month with
Sarah von Schilling, '27, in Haiti.

Frances Reed. ex-"29, is working in Schraffts"
in New York City.

Anne Christie Stevenson. ex-"29, has a daughter,
Georgeanna, born last fall.

Edith Roache, ex-"29, has moved to Richmond,
Virginia, to live.

Margaret McKay, ex-"29, is now Mrs. George
E. Clifford, and is living in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Mary V irginia Dudley Lambert, ex-"29, is
spending the winter in Lebanon, Tennessee,
where her husband is attending the Cumberland
University Law School.

1930

Josephine Reid has announced her engagement
to Mr. Charles Stephen Stubbs. HI. The wed-
ding will take place April 22 and Ruth Hanson,
'30, Marjorie Sturges, '30, and Serena Ailes
Heni-y, ex-'30, will be in the wedding party.

Elizabeth Marston is spending six weeks in
Florida.

Mary Moss has announced her engagement to
Mr. Brentwood Po\vell of Baltimore, Maryland.

Elizabeth Johnston Cook has moved to Chicago,
10 live.

Evaline Edmonds is now Mrs. Carl E. Thoma
and is living in Springfield, Illinois. She is con-
tinuing with her newspaper work of conducting
a shopping column.

Helen Beard Huntington has a son, born Jan-
uai-y 20.

Katherine Marr White is now living in Nash-
ville, Tennessee.

Gladys Wester is now !Mrs. Samuel Mead
Horton and has moved to Orange, New Jersey,
to live.

Elizabeth Copeland is spending the winter in
Richmond. She writes for the Richmond Times
Dispatch.

Jette Baker, ex-'30. was married on December
24. to Mr. James Lyons Davidson of Lynchburg.

Georgie Wilson JNIockridge, ex-"30, has a daugh-
ter, Alyce Jane, born recently.

Ida Moore Luke, ex-'30, has a second son,
Richmond Moore, born November 29.

Isabel Winans Lamb, ex-"30, has announced
her engagement to Mr. Max Melville Wylie of
Montclair, New Jersey.

1931

Charlotte Kent announced her engagement on
February 18 to Mr. Thomas Pinckney. She has
just returned from a motor trip to Florida.

Margaret Ferguson was married on December
26 to Mr. Joseph Dexter Bennet.

Jean Ploehn has returned to her home in Bet-
lendorf. Iowa, after spending a year in California.

Jean Countryman is doing some work for the
Public Welfare office in Rockford.

Phoebe Rone Peters has a son, Ralph Williams,
Jr-. born on December 10.

Maiy Frances Westcott spent a week on cam-
pus in February en route to her liome in Chat-
tanooga from Charlottesville, where she visited
for a week.

Virginia Quinlard sailed on Februai7 11 for a
cruise to the West Indies.

Jane Muhlburg announced her engagement,
February 7, to Mr. Albert V^ort Halverstadt.

Dorothy Boyle was married February 15 to Mr.
Robert Charles of Mount Clair. New Jersey.
They have sailed for Indo-China where they plan
to spend a year.

Gertrude Lerois Magavern has a son, born on
February first.

Evelyn Mullen is working as Secretary-Reviser
at the School of Libraiy Science, University of
North Carolina. She graduated from this school
last June.

Caroline Heath spent the week-end on campus
recently.

Mary Cannaday has been awarded a year's
scholarship in Social Service Training, Richmond
Division, at William and Mary College.

Maiy Stewart Kelso Clegg has a daughter,
Carolyn, born November 19.

I\Iary Henderson and Mildred McCreai-y spent
a week-end in Februai-y visiting Ella Williams.
They came out to college for a day.

Ella Williams is teaching Histoiy, English, and
French at a private school in Lynchburg.

Charlotte Broicn Harden, ex-'31, has moved to
Philmont, New York, to live.

Sarah Jester, ex-'31, is assistant Camp Fire
executive in Corsicana, Texas.

Elise Jester, ex-'31, has recently sold her first
short story.

Elizabeth Kremer, ex-"31. is teaching at the
High School in Hancock, Maiyland.

Isabelle Bush, ex-"31, was manned on Decem-
ber 20 to .Vlbert Possey Thomasson, in Mobile,
Alabama.

Pauline Graham, ex-"31, is working at the
John Shillito Company in Cincinnati.

1932

Reunion 1933.

Margaret Bennett visited Jessie Fisher in Dal-
las, during November, and later visited Frances
Sencindiver Stuart in Martinsburg. When at
Davidson, for the midwinter dances, she stayed
with Catherine Oglesby Mixson, ex-'33.

Courtenay Cochran, Susan Marshall and Sluait
Groner visited Dorothy Smith for a week-end in
December.

Alice Dahney has been studying music this
winter in Charlottesville.

Elizabeth Doughti^ has been studying Music
and French in New Y'ork and since Thanksgiving
has been teaching niano. During Christmas vaca-
tion she visited Lelia Van Leer. "33, and Elizabeth

Sweet BraAR College

Clary, '33. In May she is planning to visit
Frances Sencindiver Stuart and then spend a
week or so in New Orleans with her family.
She is planning a European trip this summer.

Emma Green spent the week-end on campus
recently.

Jessie Fisher made her dehut in Dallas this
winter.

Sarah Forsyth visited on campus during the
last of February.

Constance Fowler and Dorothy Smith went on
a West Indies cruise together in January. Connie
has been doing a great deal of Junior League
work.

Henrietta Biyan has moved to Washington,
D. C, to live.

Mildred Laiimer spent a week-end on campus
recently.

Charlotte Magoffin is studying Journalism at
Columbia University in New York. She visited
Irene Kellogg in Charlottesville on her way east,
and also stopped at the college.

Marion Malm is staying at home this winter
in Cleveland and is doing some volunteer charity
work.

Susan Marshall is taking a business course.

Marjorie Miller visited Dorothy Smith the first
part of December.

Mary Moore Pancake visited Virginia Bellamy
in December and then went up with her to
Virginia Hall Lindley's -vvedding, which they were
both in. Flappy is now taking a business course
in Staunton.

Helen Pratt visited Betty Allen Magrader and
Alice Dabney in Charlottesville for a short time
this winter. She stopped at the college en route
from having spent several weeks with Eleanor
Wright in Columbus, Ohio.

Anna Gilbert arrived home Februaiy 17 after
a month's journey to Yucatan. She flew from
Miami to Havana and then to Yucatan, spending
two and a half weeks at Chicken Itza, where the
Carnegie Institute is repairing and restoring the
Mayan ruins. She then spent a week in Ithaca.

Edith Railey stopped at Sweet Briar for a
week-end en route to her home from New York.

Sally Shallenberger's father has just been ap-
pointed militaiT attache in Vienna and she will
leave for abroad the first of June with her family.
She took part in "'The Perfect Alibi" by A. A.
Milne, produced by the Players' Club of Colum-
bus in Februaiy. She is also studying art, por-
trait and life, under Alice Schille.

Adelaide Smith left the first part of February
for a year in Europe with her family.

Dorothy Smith is studying art under Miss Mar-
guerite Munn, and is taking a course in Play
Production at the University of Virginia. She
visited Jane Hays at Thanksgiving.

■ Beatrice Stone has moved to Washington, D. C,
to live.

Nancy Wilson is working in the Virginia Quar-
terly Review office at the University of Virginia.

Virginia Squibb announced her engagement to
James William Flynn. of Logan, West Virginia,
on Februaiy 11. The date for the wedding has
not yet been set.

The Alumnae Association records with deep
regret the death of Kathryn Maiy Edwards, ex-
'32, who died the middle of Januaiy.

Maiy Van Winkle, ex-'32. sailed February 4,
for a six-weeks MediteiTanean cruise.

Virginia Haynes, ex-'32, was mariied to George
Huebuer last fall, and is now living in Detroit.

Roberta Drane, ex-"32, is planning to go to
Europe this summer with Elizabeth Doughtie.

Caralisa Bany, ex-"32, is attending the Law
School at Cumberland University at Lebanon,
Tennessee, She graduated from the Llniversity
of Alabama last June.

Catherine Oglesby, ex-'32, was married in De-
cember to Mr. Heniy Mixson, in Valdosta, Geo-
gia. Her husband is attending Davidson, from
which he graduates in June.

Lydia Wise CaiToll, ex-'32. is spending the
winter at her home where she is recovering from
a nervous breakdown.

Jane Milan ex- '32, is working at the Union
Company in Columbus, Ohio, as personal shopper
and manager of the mail order and contract de-
partment.

Marjorie Blaikie, ex-'32, is private secretaiy in
a wholesale and retail dress shop in Englewood,
New Jersey.

Naomi Doty, ex-'32, is dietician for the Stauffer
Company of Detroit, Michigan.

Julia Wilkins, ex- '32, spent Febioiaiy and the
early part of March visiting in Washington, D. C.

EX-1933

Virginia Alford was on campus for a week the
last of Febraaiy.

Kathleen Carmichael has announced her en-
gagement to Lieutenant George Robinson Mather.
The wedding will take place in June.

Elizabeth Burgess is now Mrs. Anthony J.
Wies, Jr., and is living in Willsboro, Pennsyl-
vania.

Ethel Cameron is working at the Bellevue
Hospital in New York City as supei-visor of
volunteers in the Pediatrics Clinics.

Betty Cassidy is attending the University of
Colorado.

Betty Dawson will graduate this year from
Beaver College in Jenkinlown, Pennsylvania.

Annabel Essaiy was on campus for a visit the
first of Febi-uaiy. She is taking a secretarial
course in Washington this winter.

Dorothy Eaton is at home in Wilmington, Dela-
ware.

Mary Gai-ver is attending the University of
Kansas.

Anne Guppy announced her engagement during
Christmas to Mr. John Dickie, Jr., of East Orange,
New Jersey.

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and alumnae can be assured success as hostesses with the lovely Sweet Briar
dishes. Fall and winter demand that those comFortable hours about the tea
table, dinner table, or over coFFee cup: be made pleasurable. To meet this need
the Sweet Briar border pattern has been applied to tea, aFter dinner coFFee and
other services. As giFts, individually or collectively, these pieces are most
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The new pieces have the Sweet Briar border

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Thelma Hanifen is spending the winter in
Miami. Florida.

^label Hickman will graduate from North-
western Lniversity this year.

Marjorie Jones is attending Smith College.

Charlene Lathrop is a senior at the University
of Kansas.

Jeanette Shambaugh will graduate from Rad-
cliffe this year.

Nancy Stack is attending Sophie Newcomb
College in New Orleans.

Sue Stratton is in business w'ith her father in
Milwaukee.

Sarah Stockton has announced her engagement
on December 16 to ^Ir. Chester Griswold of New
York.

Helen Teny was on campus for several days
in Februaiy. She will graduate from the Univer-
sity of South Carolina this year.

Anna Willis was married Februaiy 11 to Mr.
William Elkins of Houston. Texas.

Louise '^ oodard was married to Mr. Charles
Dunston Hurtt. Jr., of Richmond, Virginia, on
Januaiy 28Lh.

Anna Willis was mamde Februar>" 11 to Mr.
^ illiam Elkins of Houston. Texas. They spent
their honeymoon in Ne^^" Orleans.

Catherine Kells has announced her engagement
to Mr. Rowland Dulaney Furlong of McKeesport,
Louisiana.

Eleanor Niggle has moved to Austin, Texas, to
live.

Janet McGregor sailed Februaiy 10 for Ant-
^verp where she inll spend several months visit-
ing her brother and sister-in-law.

Elizabeth Stuart Gray has been attending the
Pan-American Business School in Richmond.

Inga Maja Olsson is attending the University
of Wisconsin.

EX-1934

The Alumnae Association records with deep
1 caret the death of Margaret Coulson. Decem-
ber 19. 1932.

Betty Taylor has been taking a business course
this year.

Ruberta Bailey spent the winter at her home
in Arlington. Massachusetts, where she was con-
nected with social work and welfare activities.

Mar\' Anne Page, formerly of Tulsa. Oklahoma,
has moved to Red Wing, Minnesota, to live.

Marguerite Stephens has been attending the
New York School of Applied Design for "'S'omen
this winter.

Cleo Scott is taking a business comse at tlie
Detroit Commercial College.

Eleanor Cai-penter, of Louisville. Kentucky, is
planning to pursue a secretarial course duiing
the Spring.

Mason Daniel was employed during the ^^■inter,
in an interior decorating shop in Jacksom-ille,
Florida.

Carolyn Lawerence is spending the winter in
Miami, Florida.

Helen Stevens is attending 'Wells College, Au-
rora, New York.

Cornelia Matheson Fitch is living in Olympia.
^ ashington.

Katherine Haniia is spending the winter in
Sebring, Florida.

Marjorie W escott is a student of the Grand
Central Art School, New York.

Helen Milikin Cook has a daughter, born last
fall.

Martha Dielil is spending sometime in Miami,
Florida.

Janet Blood Brown of Denver. Colorado, was
associated with the Red Wing athletic teams of
Denver during the winter.

EX-'1935

Mary Honeywell spent the week-end of Feb-
ruar\- 10 on campus on her way to Florida where
she will remain for the spring.

Dorothy Johnston sailed this month for Eng-
land where she plans to join her brother at
Oxford and make an extensive tour of the con-
tinent.

Kathleen Casey has entered Goucher College,
Baltimore, while she continues her studies in
music at the Peabody Consen'ator>".

Emma Hedges is attending the University of
^ irginia.

Frances Martin is pursuing a business course
at Temple School, Washington. D. C. and will
continue it throughout the spring.

Helen Meloon is continuing her studies at
Barnard College. Columbia University.

The announcement has been made of the en-
gagement of Janet Jaqua of Indianapolis to
Richard H. Duke of the same city.

Jackie Griel attended the Mardi Gras in New
Orleans.

Jane Liltleford is spending the spring in Sara-
sota, Florida.

Jane Cockrill is taking accounting and dra-
matics at the Little Rock Junior College.

FORMS OF BEQUEST

/ give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ - , to be invested and from time to time

re-invested by said Corporation as it shall deem best, and to

be called the -.. Endowment Furul. The

interest and income therefrom shall be applied by said Cor-
poration to the payment of the salaries of its teachers as it
shall deem expedient.

I give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ , to be used and appropriated by said

Corporation for its benefit in such manner as it shall deem
to be most useful.

I give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the Stale of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ , to be invested and from time to time

re-invested by said Corporation as it shall deem best, and to

be called the Scholarship Fund, the

interest and income to be applied by said Corporation to the
aiding of its deserving students in Sweet Briar Institute or
College.

While we stop to rest and
admire the beautiful out yonder
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Sweet Briar College

JUNE 1933

The Painless

...High up under the dome of Boston's Massachu-
setts General Hospital, far removed from the wards
so that the screams of sufferers under the knife will
not horrify the ward patients, is the Hospital's famed
operating amphitheatre. Many a medical student
dreads the operations he is privileged to watch, ffe-
quently faints. But one day last week Dr. John C.
Warren. Boston surgeon, led a group of surgeons
and students (class of 1847) up the long stairs, eager,
hurrying.

For there beckoned an interesting experiment —
surgery without pain. Dr. William Thomas Green
Morton. 27-year old Boston dentist, thought it pos-
sible, had experimented t<> that end with ether, a
volatile, pungent chemical compound capable of pro-
ducing insensibility. He had tried it on animals, on
himself, then on his patients while extracting the
roots of decayed teeth. Finally he had obtained per-
mission from Dr. Warren to let him test his drug
before an audience. One Gilbert Abbott, with a tumor
on his neck, was to be the first trial.

At 11 a.m. the last privileged student hurried into
the amphitheatre. Experimentee Abbott, fidgeting on
the operating-table, looked anxiously at the clock.
Casual talk ceased, sudden silence prevailed as the
minute-hand crawled past the hour, and Dr. Morton
did not appear. "He and his anesthetic! Humbugs
both, no doubt!" mumbled a doctor. It became five
minutes past eleven, ten. then a quarter after. The
patient stirred uneasily, Dr. Warren selected an in-
strument, advanced to the table — useless to delay pro-
ceedings any longer. As his knife poised for the in-
cision. Dr. Morton, breathless, apologetic, rushed in.
He held in one hand a curious globe-and-tube apparatus.

In eager concentration, tensely expectant, the wait-
ing group of surgeons and students watched while the
newcom»r — a charlatan perhaps, a genius possibly —
adjusted his peculiar inhaling apparatus to the pa-
tient's mouth and with tense composure administered

Cultivated Americans. in>patient with
turn increasingly to publications edited
lions, fair-dealing, vigorously impartial,
in tire sense that they report what they

his anesthetic. Veiled skepticism revealed itself when
the patient reacted suddenly in wild exhilaration, but
this exuberance subsided, relaxation took its place,
then unconsciousness. Skepticism was routed, amaze-
ment paramount. Said Dentist Morton to Surgeon
Warren; "Your patient is ready."

Dr. Warren began to operate, proceeded quickly, in
five minutes had finished. From the patient came no
cry of pain, no agony of distress, only slight move-
ments, mumbled words as from one who stirs on the
borderland of sleep ....

"This, gentlemen," exclaimed Surgeon Warren, "is
no humbug."

Awake. Gilbert Abbott said, "I felt no pain."

So. in part, had TIME been published in
October. 1846, would TIME have reported the
first public demonstration of ether as a sur-
gical anesthetic. So, too, would TIME have
reported how one Dr. Crawford Williamson
Long, of Georgia, came forward later saying
that he had used ether four years previous, had
piven it up as impractical .... So, too. would
TIME have reported the bitter persecution that
came to Dentist Morton when he patented his
discovery as "Letheon"; the seizure of "Leth-
eon" by the U. S. Government for its own uses;
the claims of Dr. Charles T. Jackson, the Bos-
ton chemist from whom Dentist Morton had
obtained his ether; the division of the Paris
Academy of Medicine's 5,000 franc Monthyon
Prize for 1852 between these two, with Morton
proudly refusing his share; the long Congres-
sional investigations resulting in nothing, and
Dentist Morton's death in poverty in 1865.

cheap sensationalism and windy bias,

in the historical spirit. These publica-

devote themselves to the public weal

see, serve no masters, fear no groups.

TIME

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THE ALUMNAE NEWS

PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

Four times a year — March, June, October and December
Subscription Rate -$1.00 a year; Single Copies, 30 Cents

Entered as Second Class Matter'November 23, 1931, at the Post Office at Sweet Briar, Vlrslnia,
under the Act of March 3, 1879

JUNE, 1933

VOLUME II.

NUMBER 4.

The Alumna& News is a vmrnher of the American Alumni Council

THE SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

President

EDNA LEE WOOD (Mrs. John Clark), '26
60 Gramercy Park, New York City

First Vice-President

KATHARYN NORRIS KELLEY

(Mrs. Stillman F. 11), '26

Clark Road, Babson Park

Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts

Second Vice-President

ALICE WEYMOUTH, '32
152 Central Avenue, Flushing, New York

Treasurer

JEANETTE BOONE, '27
Sweet Briar, Virginia

Alumnae Secretary

VIVIENNE BARKALOW BRECKENRIDGE,

'18

Sweet Briar, Virginia

Members of the Council

MARGARET BANISTER, '16
Sweet Briar. Virginia

DOROTHY KELLER, '26

125 South Lexington Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

GERTRUDE DALLY, '22

242 Noble Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

GERTRUDE PRIOR, '29
29 Fisher Place, Trenton, New Jersey

MARGARET McVEY, '18 (Honorary Member)
1417 Grove Avenue, Richmond, Virginia

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SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE NEWS

Editor — Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge, '18

Table of Contents

Fletcher Hall . - Frontispiece

PREsroENT Glass 4

Commencement, June, 1933 .. 5

Annual Meetinx of the Alumnae Assoclation, June, 1933 7

Report of the Alumnae Secretary 8

Our Twentieth Reunion 11

The Alumn.ae Banquet in Honor of the Cl.ass of 1933 12

Honors Aw.arded .at Commencement ,.... 13

Announcements M.ade .at the Commencement Exercises 13

We Point With Pride 13

The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award 14

Gradu.ates of the Class of 1933 15

Alumnae Attending Commencement 16

Alumn.ae Loyalty Fund Chairman 16

Emily Helen Button 17

After Ten Years 17

Trends in Admissions 22

Old Familiar Scenes 24

Sweet Briar's Part in the Century of Progress 25

Of Books No End 26

Preachers to the College 21

Soap Coupons 29

Class Personals .....; 34

PRESIDENT GLASS

Dr. Meta Glass, newly elected President of the American Association of University Women.
President Glass succeeds Dr. Mary E. Wooley, President of Mount Holyoke College.

Alumnae News

Commencement, June, 1933

Commencement Address — " Other Men's Idols "

Delivered by Dr. Robert McElroy

(Editor's Note — Dr. McElroy, v/ho is a nativ^ of Kentucky, took his B.A.. M.A., and Ph.D. de-
grees from Princeton, studied at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Oxford, and was successfully
instructor, assistant professor and professor of American Histoi-y at Princeton and head of the de-
partment of History and Politics at that university. He was the first American exchange professor
to China and lectured on government and education in the principal universities and cities of China,
Japan and the Philippines. Since 1925 he has been Harold Harmsworth professor of American His-
tory at Oxford. He is the author of a number of historical works, including his well-known life
of Cleveland, "Grover Cleveland — The Man and Statesman.")

^HE prime enemies of our civiliza-
tion are not men nor races. They
are false Ideals; Idols which hold
our allegiance. They are prejudices, in-
herited folly, localism, self-sufficiency, the
idea that our race was born to rule other
races. I sometimes think, and always hope,
that they are passing in a new darkening
of the Gods. We feel resentment when men
seek to take them from us, but we should
be saner and safer without them. To be-
come comfortable without our Idols is to
become truly civilized."

"But it is discouraging to speak of our
Idols. Therefore, in deference to the day,
which was made for joy, I will speak of
other men's Idols, and how we should treat
them. Every man, ourselves excepted, has
them, pantheons of them; and he trusts
them with a strange, pathetic faith. The
Ancients catalogued them in species. Idols
of the Temple, Idols of the Market, Idols
of the Forum."

In speaking of the Idols of the Temple
Dr. McElroy said: "As I study the spirit
of Missions, which even in their present
imperfect state have meant so much to the
world, I see a movement, slow but certain,
toward that wise tolerance through which
we are helping other religions, and making
our interpretation of our own grander and
more worthy. The Idols of the Temple
will in the end be merged into the Ideal of
a Common Worship, if we do not allow
past mistakes, and present controversies, to
block this mighty road to Progress and
Peace."

"Among American Idols of the Market
stands conspicuous the long-adored Gold
Standard. Men have trusted it so long and
have inherited so profound a faith in its
power to keep them sane and solvent, that

a mystical quality has entered into their
faith. To many, the Gold Standard has
become an Idol. *** The last few years,
however, have proved beyond the shadow
of a doubt, that it was not gold weight of
our dollars that gave us the prosperity now
gone; for that prosperity disappeared, with
the weight of our gold dollar still unalter-
ed andwith that Idol of the Market still
enthroned.

"But since 1898, the face of every United
States bond has carried a definite pledge
that it will be redeemed in gold of the
present value. Every foreigner who pur-
chased one, did so with our Nation's pledge
of honor to redeem it in American dollars
of a designated weight and fineness. That
has nothing to do with any Idol. It is a
Contract which lies outside the legitimate
sovereignty of the American nation; for
the foreigner stands and must stand, upon
a basis wholly different from our own citi-
zens. To force the foreigner who holds
United States bonds to receive payment in
any substance not denominated in the con-
tract is usurpation, unjust, illegal, inde-
fensible, upon the basis of any known code
of ethics save the law that might makes
right."

"When we seek an Idol of the Forum,
we find that here also current events have
designated one. We call it 'Isolation'.
Washington warned us to avoid 'permanent
alliances'. Jefferson warned us to avoid
'entangling alliances'. And a century and
almost a half has moulded from a com-
bination of these two warnings a doctrine
akin to neither; a fetish which makes it
difficult for this great nation to play its
proper place among the family of nations."

"Our national ideal has never been isola-
tion, although our policy has, at times, been

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far too provincial for our good and the
nation's glory; and it is not the desertion
of a national Idol, but the reassertion of
a normal point of view, when our President
demands, as he has demanded in no uncer-
tain terms, that we take a leading part in
what he rightly terms 'our common strug-
gle against economic chaos'."

"There can be no doubt, even in the
minds of those who still feel the impulse
to worship at the altar of 'Isolation', that
America will be risking much, for herself,
which means for all the world, if she heeds
the voices of those who wish to make Isola-
tion an Idol, and to reject such courageous
and far-sighted leadership as the past few
months have given her."

"For a few wonderful years, at the time
of the World War, America stood upon a
pinnacle, erected by great and unselfish
services. Every nation was ready to listen
to her voice ; even to follow her leadership.
It was a glorious few years; but they quick-
ly passed. **'* America gained the spirit-
ual leadership of the world by following
the large view; we lost it by reverting to
the small view. We gained it by demon-
strating our willingness to sacrifice all for
what we considered duty. We lost it by
degenerating into selfish nationalism. We
have led the nations back into narrow na-
tionalism. Let us now lead them on to a
wider, fairer region of ready international
co-operation."

"There are many other Idols of the Tem-
ple, the Market, and the Forum, which
might properly be cited as objects of toler-
ation, and generous difference of opinion;
but I have now reached the moment in
which I must speak the last words which
I shall ever be permitted to speak of most
of you. I have pondered long over the
words, and their content; and present them
with confidence that they bear the spirit of

this place: 'Vow," always to think of every
question in the largest possible terms'.
The mind that can live up to the measure
of such a vow is an educated mind: and
one which may be counted upon to help
the world, meaning all the world."

In concluding Professor McElroy said:
"The proper aim of education is not knowl-
edge, but understanding, which is inter-
preted knowledge; or, to quote the highest
of all text-books, 'With all thy getting get
understanding'. True education is not an
event, but a process; and Commencement
is not the end, but almost the beginning
of that process. If yours is a real Com-
mencement, you will never allow yourself
to be diverted from the study of the great
themes here begun. 'The mind is the
measure of the man'. That was uttered
by an ancient philosopher, to whom had
been revealed, in singular clearness, that
great half-truth. We have made progress
since his day, and can say what he never
suspected: 'The mind is also the measure
of the woman'.

"Do not let the Sophist deceive you with
the words: 'Be good, sweet maid, and let
who will be clever'. The goodness which
counts most toward happiness, our own
and that of all our neighbors, is the good-
ness of the clever, intelligent, informed,
and wide-awake mind, be it male or female.
The course toward wisdom and happiness
demands of you. as amon?; the world's in-
tellectually privileged, that you be intelli-
gent upon all subjects; for that is the right
of the educated mind. But it demands also
that you become expert upon some subject,
for therein lies your chance to contribute
to understandina;. It demands, most of all,
that you have full faith in God, and full
sympathy and kindness toward the wor-
shippers of Idols not your own. Faith is
the consolation of old age, but it is the
inspiration of youth."

Alumnae News

Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association,

June, 1933

THE regular annual meeting of the
Sweet Briar Alumnae Association
was held on Monday, June 5, 1933,
in Fletcher Auditorium with President
Edna Lee Wood presiding. The minutes
of the last meeting were approved as pub-
lished in the Alumnae News, June, 1932.
The reports of the Treasurer and Secretary
were read and accepted. Reports were
given from the following clubs: Amherst,
Birmingham, Boston, Cleveland, Washing-
ton, D. C, Lynchburg, New York City,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Richmond.

The Secretary read the change of con-
stitution as printed in the March Alumnae
News. Page Bird Woods, '28, moved and
Katharyn Norris Kelley, '26, seconded the
motion to adopt these changes. The mo-
tion carried.

The Secretary read the following letter
from President Glass, addressed to your
Secretary :

"I wish to convey to you the action of
the Board of Overseers ratified by the
Board of Directors, in which they approved
the election of two members of the Board
of Overseers from nominations made by
the Alumnae Association from its own
membership, in accordance with the pro-
visions set forth in By-Law VI as submitted
to the Board, changing Section I to read:

'The Alumnae Association of Sweet
Briar College shall elect one candidate
each for as many places as are held for
alumnae representation on the Board of
Overseers of Sweet Briar College.'

The Board gave expression to much
appreciation of the work and interest of
the alumnae and their growing concern
with service to the college. They expressed
great pleasure at the prospect of alumnae
representation on the Board of Overseers,
and their willingness to receive such nomi-
nations at the meeting of the Board in Octo-
ber, if they can be ready by that time, and
to welcome the nominees."

The Secretary then read the copy of By-
Law VI, which was sent to everyone with
the commencement letter. Virginia Lee
Taylor Tinker, '26, moved and Louisa New-

kirk Steeble, '23, seconded the motion to
accept By-Law VI changing Section 1 to
read according to the letter from President
Glass. The motion carried.

The Secretary read the two recommenda-
tions of the Council. First, That the soap
coupon campaign should be continued
until June, 1934. Katherine Blount, '26,
moved and Henrietta Washburn, '14, sec-
onded the motion to approve this recom-
mendation. The motion carried. Second,
the Council recommends the beginning of
an Alumnae Loyalty Fund and that the
Council be authorized to appoint the first
Chairman of the Fund, whose term of
office shall be for a period of three years.
The Secretary then read the Council's
definition and object of a Fund as fol-
lows: fa) To establish a channel through
which every alumna and non-graduate,
according to her means, can express her
loyalty to the college and her belief in
its future, (b) To promote the habit of
annual giving by means of an annual
appeal from the Alumnae Association.
(cl To assure to the college a regular
annual gift to be applied to endowment
or to scholarships, precluding the possi-
bility of additional campaigns.

It is definitely understood that a portion
of the Fund will be considered as dues,
carrying the privilege of a voting mem-
bership in the association and a subscrip-
tion to the Alumnae News, the balance to
be applied to endowment or scholarship as
preferred. Life members will retain all of
the privileges P'ranted to them at the time
of becoming life members. Poly Gary
Dew Woodson, '26, moved and Gertrude
Prior, '29, seconded the motion to adopt
this recommendation. The motion carried.

Peronne Whittaker. '31, moved and Har-
riet Evans Wychoff, '15, seconded, the mo-
tion that the Secretary be instructed to
write the proper authorities that the alum-
nae felt very strongly that the traditional
May Queen song, "Roses, Red Roses",
should be sung on May Day. The motion
carried. Elizabeth Franke Balls, '13,
moved and Bessie Grammer Torrev, '13,

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seconded the motion that the Secretary
include in the letter the fact that this song
is essentially a Sweet Briar song, as a
member of the facultj^ had written the
music and a student had written the words.
The motion carried.

Katharyn Norris Kelley, '26, moved and
Anne Powell Hodges, '10, seconded the
motion that the printing of news items re-
garding tlie faculty vacation plans be left
to the discretion of the Editor of the

Alumnae News. The motion carried.

The Secretary announced the details in
regard to the Alumnae Banquet and the
Academic Procession for Commencement
morning.

There being no further business the
meeting stood adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

ViviENNE Barkalow Breckenridge,

Alumnae Secretary.

The Report of the Alumnae Secretary

THE Sweet Briar Alumnae Association
closes the fiscal year of 1932-1933
with a greater number and a greater
variety of accomplishments than ever be-
fore. The association has broadened its
scope to include not only the six funda-
mental projects of the office itself, but also
has begun to be of material aid to the col-
lege in many ways. It is difficult to say
which of the many things started is of most
importance and, therefore, I shall give vou
the history of the office month by month.

As you know, the permanent office of the
association was loaned to Mr. Percy Mac-
Kaye for the vear. Our temporarv office
was located in the small parlor in Cram-
mer where we moved early last September
and where we have been all year, returning
to the Cabin in time to greet the alumnae
at commencement.

Margaret Banister, '16, arrived at the
college the first of October to take over
the tremendous job of publicity. Her ap-
pointment was made at the request of the
association at its annual meeting last June.

The first fall meeting of the Alumnae
Council was held on Thursday nisht, Octo-
ber 27. in the Alumnae Office. Edna Lee
Wood, '26. arrived several davs before this
meeting to fullv acquaint herself with the
problems of the office. It was at this meet-
ing that two of the major plans for the
year were completed: the great soap cam-
paign was decided UDon. and the appoint-
ment of Class Secretaries, by the Council,
was begun. The L\Tichburg Alumnae Club
entertained your president and your secre-
tary at a special meeting at the home of
Elizabeth Clark. '31, on October 27. At
this time Edna spoke on "The Value of
the Association to the College" and your
secretary spoke on "The Value of the Or-

ganized Clubs to the Association." The
movies of the college were shown. Twelve
graduates were back for Founders' Day.
Edna received with President Glass and
President Maurer of Beloit College at the
reception held that afternoon at Sweet
Briar House. For two years we have been
planning and working for the change in
the alumnae publication. It was first sent
to you twice a year, under the college per-
mit and as a college bulletin, although
paid for by the association. Last year the
change in size was made and the Alumnae
News was sent to alumnae fours times a
year and under our own mailing permit.
The October issue of the Alumnae News
with its black cover and green seal, its
many pictures, its national advertisements,
and its articles bv manv prominent people
is the final realization of our two years of
planning.

November was devoted to the working
out of the details for the soap campaign,
the announcements of which reached you
the middle of this month. Early in the
month. Edna Lee Wood, '26, attended the
first meetin<j of the Northern New Jersey
Club, which was held in Montclair, and
gave them the value of her advice in the
organizing of their new and very active
club. More requests, from other alumnae
associations, as to how we did "this and
that" reached the office this month than
ever before. Of particulir interest to other
associations is the excellent work of our
clubs. Plans were completed for addi-
tional Sweet Briar Days and for the form-
ing of additional clubs.

The December Alumnae News reached
you early in that month. More Sweet
Briar Davs were held this year than ever
before and for the first time a meeting

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was held out of the Lnited States, at
the Foreign Club in Tia Juana, Mexico.
Miss Glass attended the Boston meeting,
vour president did double service, for she
not only attended the \ew 1 ork meeting
but was also at the Philadelphia luncheon.
Edna also wrote words of greetmg to many
of the clubs. Margaret Banister, '16, and
your secretary both attended the meeting
in Washington. D. C. Ban spoke on her
work with publicity and vour secretary
spoke on the acti\^ties of the office.

On January 17, Virginia Van Winkle
Morlidge, '28, spoke before the Parent-
Teacher's meeting of the College Prepara-
tory School in Cincinnati on Sweet Briar.
A second meeting of the Alumnae Coun-
cil was held at the home of vour president
in ?Sew \ ork City on January 30. At tliis
meeting the final appointments of Class
Secretaries were made, plans for the start-
ing of an Alumnae Fund were discussed,
and additional plans for the soap campaign
were completed. The Council approved the
policy of allowing any alumna, who ob-
tains an "ad' for the Alumnae f^eiis. the
commission of fifteen percent. WTiile in
New \ ork, your secretary accompanied by
your president spent a morning with the
representatives of the Colgate Palmolive
Peet Company and made a more practi-
cable arrangement with them than was at
first possible. At tliis time the addresso-
graph was selected tliat will be installed if,
and when, the adequate number of coupons
are received. A conference was also held
with the representative of The Graduate
Group, the firm handling our national ad-
vertising, and a very satisfactory arrange-
ment was agreed upon at this time: tliis
firm will continue to represent us with
national advertisers. A conference was
held with Mr. Stephen K. Little, advertis-
ing manager of the Princeton Press, and
plans were started whereby we hope to
obtain additional ads from him. that The
Graduate Group are unable to secure for
us.

On February 16 your president attended
College Night at the Lower Merion Senior
High School in x\rdmore. Pennsylvania.
On February 28 she attended the first bene-
fit bridge party given by the Northern New
Jersey Club. On February 24 and 2.5 your
secretary attended the annual conference
of District III of the American Alumni

Council which was held at Duke Univer-
sity, Durham, North Carolina. At this
conference your secretary was elected the
director of this district, which includes
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North and
South Carolina, and Virginia, for the next
two years. WTiile there she spoke on
"Alumnae Magazines" and also on "Pre-
paring Students for Alumnae-hood." Dur-
ing this month, each Class Secretary was
supplied with the complete list of the
graduates of her class, and many of the
Secretaries of the earlier classes were also
given the list of "ex's" of their respective
classes. It is hoped that all of the lists of
'"ex's" may be sent to the Secretaries be-
fore fall. This has been a big undertak-
ing, but it has been well worth it. The
Secretaries have taken over their respon-
sibilities i\'itli great efficiency and have been
of real value in locating many of the "lost"
and also have been most helpful in sending
in corrected addresses to the office. The
June issue of the Alumnae News will carry
the full results of their work this spring.
On February 23 the Washington Club en-
tertained Mrs. Lill at an evening meeting.
Mrs. Lill spoke on various phases of the
college and the meeting was attended, not
only by alumnae, but also by many parents
of students and parents of prospective stu-
dents.

Another Alumnae News reached you in
March. This issue carried a special greet-
ing to the alumnae from Mr. MacKaye.
Announcement was made in this issue of
the new and regular department in the
Alumnae News known by the title "Of
Books No End". From the letters already
received from many alumnae m regard to
this announcement we are sure that this
department is being keenly appreciated by
everyone. The circular containing the an-
nouncement of our new Travel Service was
sent during March to all alunmae. We
cannot stress too much the value, to the
association, of using this service. During
this month your president sent personal
letters to all of the newly appointed Class
Secretaries congratulating tliem and wish-
ing them well widt their new undertaking.
On March 14. Edna went to Trenton, New-
Jersey, to co-operate with the alumnae
there in the forming of their new club.
This club is the newest to be organized and
yet it is the first to sponsor and complete

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plans for a "Go to College Day". For
some time, many of our clubs have had
meetings and teas for prospective students,
but this is the first time that a recognized
"Go to College Day" has been undertaken
entirely by a club.

April is indeed a red letter month, for
it was during this month that it was decided
to ask the Board of Overseers for addi-
tional representation on that body. Your
secretary wrote a complete history of the
growth of die association and sent it to-
gether with the request for additional mem-
bership on the Board, to Miss Glass asking
her to bring this matter to the attention of
the members of the Board of Overseers
at her earliest convenience. This she has
done. During April many alumnae were
pressed into service to represent the col-
lege at various schools and at meetings of
Parent-Teachers Associations. Edna Lee
Wood, '26, represented us at the Wliite
Plains "Go to College Day". Mary Lynn
Carlson King, '31, spoke on Sweet Briar
at the Greensboro High School in Greens-
boro, North Carolina. Mary Margaret
Moore, ex-'29, arranged for Sweet Briar
to be represented at the college exhibit of
the American Association of Lniversity
Women in Kansas City on April 18, and
Susie Ella Burnett, '32, spoke on Sweet
Briar at a meeting held at the Washington
Seminary College Preparatory School in
Atlanta. It was also during this month
that the association was invited to become
a member of the Woman's College Board
and have representation at the "Century
of Progress". The headquarters for the
board are in Time-Fortune Building and
all alumnae of the eighteen colleges who
were invited to join the board are welcome.
Sweet Briar has sent a splendid exhibit to
the Fair, which will be on display at the
Time-Fortune Building.

Early in May the commencement letter
reached you together with By-Law VL
This By-Law was necessary to add to the
constitution for the election of members to
the Board of Overseers. More than fifty
alumnae returned for the May Day week-
end. On May 2, Elizabeth Grammer Tor-
rey, '13, spoke at the Shipley School in
Bryn Mawr on Sweet Briar. On May 12
the Philadelphia Club had the pleasure of
hearing Mrs. Bernice Lill. Registrar, speak
to their meeting on Sweet Briar. This

meeting was attended by many prospective
students and also by many parents of
present students and prospective ones. On
May 23 the Pittsburg Club had the pleas-
ure of entertaining Miss Glass at dinner.
Miss Glass spent that day in Pittsburgh and
was also the guest of the club members
during the day. On May 24 the Chicago
Club had a delightful luncheon for Miss
Glass at the College Club, and on May 26
the Minneapolis Club entertained Miss
Glass and Miss Dutton at a breakfast at the
home of Dr. Marion Grimes, ex-'24.

We are indebted to Katharyn Norris
Kelley, '26, and to Fanny O'Brutn Hettrich,
'31, for their copies of the 1929 Briar
Patch.

One page of the 1933 Briar Patch con-
tains a picture of your secretary and a list
of the officers of the association and the
members of the Council. This page was
the gift of the Class of 1934.

The Sweet Briar News has continued its
policy of co-operation and has given space
each week for alumnae news items. It was
most helpful at the time of the announce-
ment of the soap campaign and gave much
space, including an editorial, to the cam-
paign.

The sale of Sweet Briar china continues
satisfactory. A few etchings of Sweet
Briar House are still left, and also a num-
ber of etchings of the Cabin and the Oak
Tree are still for sale.

Since October first, 1932, more than
30,000 letters, magazines and circulars
have left this office, an increase over last
year of nearly 5,000. Of this number
twenty-seven pieces of mail have been re-
turned unclaimed, which means that twenty-
seven members of the Association are
"lost". Every effort is being made to lo-
cate these alumnae. Please help us to keep
our lists entirely correct and complete by
sending us changes of address as promptly
as possible.

To date we have not reached our goal
with the soap campaign, but the Premium
Department of Colgate Palmolive Peet
Company has agreed to allow us to con-
tinue the campaign for one more year,
should the plan be approved at the annual
meeting. 20,000 coupons have been sent
and accepted by the firm, and we hope that
the goal may be reached by June, 1934.

The committee on Concerts and Lectures

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of the college asked the secretary to notify
the members of the Lynchburg and Am-
herst alumnae of the concerts and lectures
during the year. This has been done by
means of sending postals to the members
one week in advance of the concert or
lecture.

Follow-up bills in the convenient form
of handy return envelopes \\ere sent to
seven hundred alumnae. On the back of
the envelope were the words ''Our Story
is Inside", and the story inside was of the
balance due for 1933. Approximately ten
percent of these were returned with checks.

I should like to take this opportunity to

thank all of the alunuiae for their confi-
dence, patience, and support in this year
of uncertainty. Their letters and telegrams
of congratulation have been a real help.
I am more than grateful to all of the Clubs
for their splendid co-operation and sup-
port. \our officers and members of the
Council have functioned as never before
and I am indebted to them for their en-
thusiasm and advice, which have been of
inestimable value and inspiration to your
secretary during the year.

Respectfully submitted,

VlVIENNE Barkalow Breckenridge,
Alumnae Secretary.

Our Twentieth Reunion

Dr. Mary K. Benedict Returns for Our Reunion

By Mary Pinkerlon Kerr, '13

THE first outward and visible sign of
the passage of years is that, in the
approach to the college buildings,
shrubs and flowers now hide the perspective
that formerly opened on the power plant.
L!nder the able supervision of Miss Dix,
shrubbery and borders of larkspur have
grown below Randolph and around the
drives and arcades. The class tree of 1910,
once known, both in affection and derision,
as "little Ulmus", the white pines of 1913
and 1915, and the oak of 1917, are as tall
as "the forest primeval".

Commencement events began Saturday,
June 3, with the garden party at five
o'clock in the old garden behind Sweet
Briar House. The dresses of the present,
with their trailing skirts and delicate
colors, are especially attractive in this set-
ting.

The meals for the alumnae were served
in the dining room of Fergus Reid. In
this dining room, serving by students has
been inaugurated. These girls wear at-
tractive green smocks, and as we saw it,
it is very satisfactory.

At eight o'clock, students, alumnae, and
guests went to the Sweet Briar garden for
the Senior Play. This is now given in tlie
garden beside the box circle, instead of the
Dell. It is a deliaht to be able to hear the

lines of the play, rather than the piping of
the tree-frogs, which in the Dell, frequently
reduced a final pla)" to pantomime. The
play this year was A. A. Milne's "The
Ivory Door", and was thoroughly enjoyed
by the audience. The costumes were quaint
and particularly suited to the setting.

After the play the alumnae and guests
adjourned to room 21, in the old Academic
Building, to see the campus movies. Inter-
esting films of the Bird Masque of Mr.
Percy MacKaye given on May Day, on a
stage built in the Dell behind the Apart-
ment House, of the Horse Show, the Foimd-
ers' Day procession and so on. One of the
most interesting pictures was that of the
Sweet Briar students, who were taking their
Junior year at St. Andrews.

Dr. Halford E. Luccock of the Yale
Divinity School preached the Baccalaureate
sermon. He used a theme, which, as he
said, began with a poem of Carl Sandburg's
and ended with a verse of Ecclesiastes. The
poem expresses the desire of the author
that, if he had a million lives, he would
prefer tliat each life should he in a differ-
ent house and each under a new name.
Between these two texts Dr. Luccock illus-
trated the rich experience and the social
necessity of the understanding of other per-
sonalities, of the possibilities of multiply-
ing a single life into many.

Sweet Briar College

At five o'clock the Seniors, Juniors and
Sophomores assembled in front of the Re-
fectory for "Step Singing". The Seniors
in caps and gowns sat on the Refectory
steps, now known as the '"Golden Stairs",
with the Juniors and Sophomores on either
side. After the class songs the Seniors
gave the steps to the Juniors, and the
Sophomores took possession of the Junior
"bench". And lastly the Alumnae sang
their song of "rolling along".

After the beautiful Vesper Service in the
Dell, conducted by President Glass, a num-
ber of the alumnae enjoyed a picnic supper
with Dr. Mary K. Benedict, the first Presi-
dent of Sweet Briar. Her presence on the
campus was especially fitting for those
alumnae who were in college during her
administration.

Lantern Night — the procession of Sen-
iors, in caps and gowns, and Sophomores,
wearing white and carrvins lanterns. More

singing — sweet and clear in the still night
air, and another day had ended.

Monday, June 5, was Alumnae Day. It
has been customary for sometime to serve
an outdoor luncheon in Sweet Briar gar-
dens. The perfect weather of this week-
end made it possible to carry out all out-
door events as planned. After the lunch-
eon the Alumnae Meeting was held in
Fletcher Hall, and in the evening, the
formal banquet took place in Fergus Reid.

Commencement proper began with the
Academic Procession at ten o'clock Tues-
day morning. There were forty-eight
alumnae in the procession. 1913 had the
distinction of a member. Elizabeth Franke
Balls, who is the first Sweet Briar graduate
to obtain a Ph.D. Sixty-eight seniors re-
ceived degrees. Thus came to an end the
twenty-fourth Commencement of Sweet
Briar College and the twentieth reunion
of the Class of 1913.

The Alumnae Banquet in Honor of the Class of 1933

Bv Sarah Everett Lee, '28

THE Alumnae Banquet on Monday
evening was the peak of a glorious
reunion. A charming group oi new
and old alumnae, beloved members of our
faculty, and loyal college friends gathered
together in the soft candle light gave each
of us a beautiful picture to carry always
in our memory. But a deeper impression
than the apparent beauty of the occasion
was made by a combination of memories
of the past with ideals and plans for the
future.

Jocelyn Watson Regen, chairman of the
hostess class of 1928. and toastmistress,
graciously presided. Her welcome was
cordially extended to each guest and most
especially to Miss Glass, the Board of Trus-
tees, the reuning classes of 1913 and 1923
and the soon-to-be alumnae members, 1933.
She gave us a brief glimpse into Sweet
Briar's "Who's Who", introducing, from
the first through the last, presidents of
Student Government, Y. W. C. A., Dra-
matics, Athletics, Classes, and the May
Queens and also Mary Pinkerton Kerr, '13,
who wrote the Sweet Briar Sons;.

Miss Glass gave us a splendid "focus"
for our alumnae activity. It shall be our

earnest effort to present "The Sweet Briar
of the Moment" to the outside world, and
to uphold its place as a scholastic force
in the educational world. Dr. Grammer
greeted the alumnae cordially £md spoke
of the value of alumnae work. Dr. Mary
K. Benedict, Sweet Briar's first president,
expressed her joy in seeing the old Sweet
Briar she loved and the thrill of taking in
the new. She emphasized the importance
of grasping this new Sweet Briar. Edna
Lee Wood, President of the Sweet Briar
Alumnae Association, made us feel proud,
and she inspired us for future endeavor.
To commemorate the tenth anniversary
of Dean Dutton's affiliation witli die col-
lege, Jocelyn presented to her, on behalf
of the Almnnae Association, a leather port-
folio, engraved in gold with the seal of
the college, her name and the dates 1923-
1933. It contained letters of greeting to
her from the presidents of each of the
classes which have graduated under her.
After beautifully expressing her apprecia-
tion, Dean Dutton told us the facts of Sweet
Briar's high scholastic rating, of Sweet
Briar's enlarged plan of scholarship and
of her pride in the alumnae.

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The President of the Alumnae Associa-
tion then welcomed the Class of 1933 into
membership in the association. Langhorne
Watts, the President of '33, responded,
accepting the responsibilities and pledging

the loyalty and co-operation of her class.
The twenty-second almnnae banquet
closed with the Sweet Briar song. May
that song ring through the years, not only
in word and tune, but also in spirit!

Honors Awarded at Commencement

FRESHMAN HONORS
Adela Elizabeth Cocke, Chev-y Chase, Maryland

Tie
Gloriana Bunill, Pleasantville, New York
Martha Ann Hai-i'ey, Huntington, West Virginia

SOPHOMORE HONORS
Eleanor Ann Elliott, South Bend, Indiana
Julia Moss Peterkin, Parkersburg, West Virginia

JUNIOR HONORS

Eleanor Alcott, Cleveland, Ohio
Marjorie Jane Smith, Norfolk, Virginia

HONOR SCHOLARSHIPS
Freshman —

Adela Elizabeth Cocke, Chevy Chase, Mai-)'land
Sophomore —

Julia Moss Peterkin. Parkersburg, West Virginia
Junior —

Marjorie Jane Smith, Norfolk. Virginia

SENIOR— DEPARTMENTAL HONORS
Biology —

Maiy Raymond Buick, Birmingham, Michigan
Elizabeth Norsworthy Giesen,

Superior, Wisconsin
Helen Martin, Ambler, Pennsylvania
Chemistry —

Maiy Brooks Barnhart, St. Elmo, Tennessee
Hetty Adelaide Wells. Rockville Centre,

Lons Island. New York

Chemistry and Physics —

Elizabeth Nevil Crute, Canton, North Carolina

English —

Mary Paulding Murdoch, Portsmouth, Virginia

French —

Helen Goodyear Bond, Holly Oak, Delaware
Margery Gubelman, Englewood, New Jersey
Margaret Woods Imbrie, Woodbury, New Jersey
Mary Greenwood Imbrie, Woodbury, New Jersey
Susan Lanier Johnson, Lynchburg, Virginia
Madeleine Alta LeFine, Kew Gardens, New York
Abigail Jane Shepard, Cincinnati, Ohio
Sarah Langhorne Watts, Lynchburg, Virginia

COLLEGE HONORS

Helen Goodyear Bond, Holly Oak, Delaware
Marjorie Burford, Texarkana, Texas
Elizabeth Nevil Crute, Canton, North Carolina
Margaret Woods Imbrie, Woodbury, New Jresey
Mary Gatewood Imbrie, Woodbury, New Jersey
Susan Lanier Johnson, Lynchburg, Virginia
Madeleine Alta LePine, Kew Gardens, New York
Helen Martin, Ambler, Pennsylvania
Mary Paulding Murdoch, Portsmouth, Virginia
Abigail Jane Shepard, Cincinnati, Ohio
Sarah Langhorne Watts, Lynchburg, Virginia
Hetty Adelaide Wells, Rockville Centre,
Long Island, New York
Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award —
Jane Martin, Ambler, Pennsylvania

Announcements Made at the
Commencement Exercises

The following gifts were made to Sweet
Briar College during the year 1932-1933:

A further subvention from. the Carnegie
Corporation of New York of $16,000, to
be expended in the next two years.

The Mary Helen Cochran Library has
been the recipient of 500 gift volumes dur-
ing the session.

A gift of $600.00 from the Class of
1933. to become a part of the Scholarship
Endowment Fund.

We Point With Pride

To the girls returning for commencement
who were so inspired with the plan for an
Alumnae Fund that they voluntarily and
without solicitation came to tlie alumnae
office with their contribution to start this'
Fund. The list is printed in order of the
receipt of the contributions. Martha New-
ton Grover, '23, Mary Del McCaw, '23,
Louisa Newkirk Steeble, '23, Wanda Jensch
Harris, '26, Katharyn Norris Kelley, '26,
Edna Lee Wood, '26 Katherine Blount, '26,
and Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge, '18.

Sweet Briar College

Jane
Martin

The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award

Jane Martin, of Ambler, Pennsylvania,
a member of this year's graduating class
of Sweet Briar College, was given the
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award by the
college on the occasion of Sweet Briar's
Twenty-fourth Commencement exercises.

Sweet Briar is one of fifteen Southern
colleges privileged to confer the Sullivan
award, established by the Southern Society
of New York in honor of the first president
of the society. It is conferred annually to
one senior and one person not of the stu-
dent body by each of the privileged col-
leges. The award is given as a "recogni-
tion of fine spiritual qualities practically
applied to daily living." Miss Martin is
the first student to receive this honor.

The non-student award was made for the
first time at Sweet Briar's annual observ-
ance of Founders' Day last October, and
the student award will be made each year
at commencement.

In conferring the award, Dean Emily H.
Dutton presented Miss Martin to President
Glass, who made the award with the fol-
lowing citation:

Jane Martin — Member of the Class of 1933
of Sweet Briar College, for your high ideal of
the welfare of your college and of your friends,
for a discerning spirit in discovering ways of
helpfulness, for your generosity and unselfishness
in doing what you discern, for your happy ex-
pression of love to your neighbor, Sweet Briar
College confers upon you the Algernon Sydney
Sullivan Award with the hope that it may bring
to you pleasure by the recognition it betokens,
and to others as well as to yourself inspiration
for such a way of life.

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Graduates of the Class of 1933

Degree

Name

Address

A.B. Atkinson, Frances Henslev

1908 Wolfe Street. Little Rock, Arkansas
A.B. Austin, Margaret Elizabeth

U. S. Naval Magazine,

Amunition Department

Bremerton, Washington
A.B. Barber. Adali Montayne

208 Laurel Avenue, Milford, Ohio
A.B Barnhart, Mary Brooks

4302 Tennessee Avenue, St. Elmo, Tennessee
A.B. Bear, Rose Beverley

341 Sixteenth Avenue, S. W.,

Roanoke, Virginia
A.B. Belser, Susalee Mikell

920 Laurens Street,

Columbia, South Carolina
A.B. Bond, Helen Goodyear

Holly Oak, Delaware
A.B. Boss, Martha Armiuta

R. F. D. No. 4, Trenton, New Jersey
A.B. Brett, Dorothy Margaret

16000 Aldersyde Drive,

Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Ohio
A.B. Brown, Enna Frances

1119 South Crockett Street, Sherman, Texas
A B. Buick, Mary Raymjud

205 Abbey Road, Birmingham, Michigan
A.B. Burfcrd, Marjcrie

723 Pine Street. Texarkana, Texas
B.S. Clary, Elizabeth Wheeler

4615 De Russey Parkway

Chevy Chase, Maryland
A.B. demons, Mary Elizabeth

Shepherd Hills, Chattanooga, Tennessee
A.B. Coburu, Jessie Louise

120 West Nippon Street,

Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A.B. Crane, Doris Theresa

Fourth and Bellevue Avenues,

Hammonton, New Jersey
A.B. Crute, Elizabeth Nevil

Canton, North Carolina
A.B. Culbertsou, Jane Pamelia

1359 S. W. First Street, Miami, Florida
B.S. Da vies, Blanche Eyuon

3226 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland Ohio
A.B. Davies. Ruth Elizabeth

310 North Mountain Avenue,

Montclair, New Jersey
A.B. Denton, Emily

Duuton Avenue, West, HoUis, New York
A.B. Doty. Elena Rionda

Tuiuucu, Cuba
A.B. Eagles, Julia Mayes

136 East 64th Street, New York City
A.B. Fester, Lois Woodworth

226 Park Lane, Douglas Manor,

Douglaston, Long Island, New York
A.B. Giesen, Elizabeth Norsworthy

1622 Ogden Avenue, Superior, Wisconsin
A.B. G'oble, Alice Mary

105 Lincoln Road, Brooklyn, New York
A.B. Graves, Sue Quintus

1100 River Front, Monroe, Louisiana
A.B. Gubelman, Margery

62 Woodland Avenue,

EnglewoLid, New Jersey
A.B. Hancock, Belle Clay

2367 Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio
A.B. Harris, Julia Gwendolyn

464 East Avenue, New Philadelphia, Ohio
A.B. Houston, Sara

136 North Crest Road

Chattanooga, Tennessee
A.B. Howze, Kathrina

2520 East Seventh Street,

Duluth, Minnesota
A.B. Imbrie. Margaret Woods

532 Cooper Street, Woodbury, New Jersey
A.B. Imbrie, Mary Greenwood

532 Cooper Street, Woodbury, New Jersey

Degree Name Address

A.B. Jesse, Martha Ella

3601 Glebe Road, Clarendon, Virginia
A.B. Johnson, Susan Lanier

Box 643, Lynchburg, Virginia
A.B. Jones, Lena Heath

Hotel Concord, Concord North Carolina
A.B. Kelly, Ellen Mordecai

310 CoTintry Club Place,

Greensboro, North, Carolina
A.B. Kelly, Sara Marie

4243 Parkman Avenue,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A.B, Lanier, Margaret Troy

417 McClung Street, Huntsville, Alabama
A.B. LePine, Madeleine Alta

Sliellball Apartments,

Kew Gardens, New York
A.B. Mallory, Geraldine Dan vers

169 East Clinton Avenue,

Tenafly, New Jersey
A.B. Martin Alice Farrior

Riverview, Chattanooga, Tennessee
A.B. Martin, Helen

Three Tuns, Ambler, Pennsylvania
A.B. Martin, Jane

Three Tuns, Ambler, Pennsylvania
A.B. Meyers, Ruth deLima

4 Oliver Street, Rochester, New York
A.B. Murdoch, Mary Paulding

313 Middle Street, Portsmouth, Virginia
A.B. Murray, Cornelia Richards

Sno"\vden Lane, Princeton, New Jersey
A.B. Patton, Mary Kate

3713 85th Street

Jackson Heights, New York
B.S. Phillips, Frances Elizabeth

205 Newton Street, Salisbury, Maryland
A.B. Powell, Frances Jane

1402 Confederate Avenue,

Richmond, Virginia
A.B. Quinn, Frances Bryan

110 East King Street,

Kinston, North Carolina
A.B. Redmond, Mildred

3509 Country Club Road,

Birmingham, Alabama
A.B. Ris, Marjorie Annette

485 Summit Avenue,

Hackensack, New Jersey
A.B. Roberts, Mary Bess

Nestle Brook Farm. R-oanoke Virginia
A.B. Rucker, Josephine Pierce

400 Stuart Circle, Richmond, Virginia
A.B. Rust, Katharine Warwick

Fairfax, Virginia
A.B. Selden, Elizabeth Kemp

R. F. D. No. 6. Richmond, Virginia
A.B. Shepard, Abigail Jane

7222 Lower River Road, Cincinnati, Ohio
A.B. Skinner, Harriet Gotten

Greenville, North Carolina
A.B. Tamblyn, Charlotte Bradley

448 Riverside Drive, New York City
A.B. Tavlor, Mary Rose

804 West 57th Street,

Kansas City, Missouri
A.B. Van Home, Jean

42 Dwight Place, Englewood. New Jersey
A.B, Van Leer, Leila Draper

1858 Ontario Place, Washington. D. C.
A.B. Watts, Sarah Langhorne

Route 4, Lynchburg, Virginia
A.B. Wavland, Margaret Farwell

1842 16th Street, Washington, D. C.
B.S'. Wells, Hetty Adelaide

25 Vassar Place,

Roekville Centre, Long Island. New York
A.B. Wilson. Carolyn Asbury

Lookout Mountain, Tennessee

Sweet Briar College

Alumnae Attending Commencement

1910

Eugenia Griffin Burnett
Anne Powell Hodges

1913
Elizabeth Franke Balls
Elizabeth Grammer Toney
Maiy Pinkerton Kerr
Sue Slaughter

EX-1913
Beatrix Balduin Lewis

1914
Henrietta T^'ashburn

1915
Harriet Evans Wychoff

1916
Margaret Banister

1917
Henrietta Crump
Bertha Pfeister Wailes

1918
Vivienne Barkatow Breckenridge
Louise Case McGuire
Margaret Mc^ ey
EX-1918
Rebecca MacGeorge Bennett
Edna Sloan Cole
EX-1919
Virginia Hatch Combs

1920
Isabel Jf'ebb Luff

1922
Morrell Jones Gibson

1923
Margaret Bunvell Graves
Gertrude Geer Bassett
Katherine Hagler Phinigy
Bessie Hoge Brown
Maiy Del McCaw
Ritchie McGuire
Louisa Neivkirk Steeble
Martha Newton McGuire
Lydia Purcell Wilmer
Helen Richards
Virginia Stanberry Schneider
Elizabeth Taylor Valentine
Katherine Weiser Ekelund

EX-1923
Fitzallen Kendall Fearing
Margaret Wise O'Neal

1924
Helen Grill

EX-1924
Katherine Redd York

1925
Eugenia Goodall Ivey

1926
Katherine Blount
Jane Cunningham
Poly Carey Deiv Woodson
Wanda Jensch Harris
Edna Lee Wood

Kathryn Norris Kelley
Virginia Lee Taylor Tinker

1927
Jeanette Boone

1928
Page Bird Woods
Katherine Brightbill
Louise Conklin Knowles
Elizabeth Crane Hall
Sarah Everett Lee
Charlotte Horton
Elizabeth Prescott Balch
Elizabeth Robins Foster
Virginia }'an W'inMe Morlidge
Jocelyn Watson Regen

1929
Ellen Blake
Hallet Gubelman
Beulah Irving Vaughn
Elizabeth Lankjord Miles
Gertrude Prior
Alwyn Redmond Barlow
Julia Thomas

EX-1929
Ruth Ferguson Fresch

1930
Helen Harris Beard Huntington
Marion Sherrill Bromfield
Grace Ferguson
Anne Lewis
Elizabeth Saunders
Catherine Bland Williams

1931
Elizabeth Clark
Jean Cole
Virginia Cooke
Jean Countr\man
Ellen Eskridge
Margaret Ferguson Bennett
Josephine Gibbs
Fanny O'Brian Hettrick
Jean Ploehn
Peronne Whittaker
Ella X'i illiams
Nancy Woithington

1932
Sara Harrison
Marjorie Miller
Sara Shallenbarger
Jane White

EX-1933
JIary B. Lankford
Ann Spencer
Betty Taylor
Virginia \ esev

Alumnae Loyalty Fund Chairman

The Alumnae Coimcil takes great
pleasure in announcing the appoint-
ment of Katharyn Norris Kelley as
the first Chairman of the Alumnae
Lovaltv Fund.

Alumnae News

Emily Helen Dutton

BORN in Shirley, Massachusetts, Miss
Dutton was prepared for college at
Monson, one of the old New England
academies, and was graduated from Mt.
Holyoke College. Afterwards she took her
Master's degree at Radcliffe and later the
Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago,
where she held a university fellowship in
Latin for three years. She also studied a
year in the German universities of Berlin
and Munich and traveled extensively in
Europe, including Italy and Greece. In
college her major subject was Classics,
which has continued to be the field of her
graduate study and teaching. She began
secondary school teaching in Utah and
Minnesota and taught a year in the Girls'
High School, Brooklyn, before going to
Vassar, where she was instructor in Latin
for eight )'ears, leaving there to carry on
graduate study at Chicago. She came to
Sweet Briar from Tennessee where she was
professor of Latin and Greek and finally
dean at Tennessee College, which was
founded shortl)^ after Sweet Briar was
opened. She is now completing her tenth
year as dean of Sweet Briar College and
head of the department of Greek and Latin.
Her sabbatical leave in the second semester
two years ago was largely spent in Greece
and Italy. Her doctoral dissertation,
Studies in Greek Prepositional Phrases,
was written under the direction of Pro-
fessor Paul Shorey of the University of
Chicago, and was published in 1916. The
same year her presidential address for the
Tennessee Philological Association, Reflec-

tions on Re-reading Vergil, was published
as a bulletin of Tennessee College.

Dr. Dutton has been much interested in
the question of college standards; has read
papers on the subject before the Southern
Association of Colleges and other organi-
zations. She served for some years as
chairman of the committee on standards
of the Southern Association of College
Women until the union of that organiza-
tion in 1921 with the Association of Col-
legiate Alumnae to form the American As-
sociation of University Women. For the
next four years she was a member of two
A. A. U. W. national committees, the Com-
mittee on Membership and the Committee
on Maintaining Standards, and since 1925
has been chairman of the latter committee
for which her last report was recently pre-
sented at the Convention at Minneapolis.
She prepared the chapter on the Southern
Association of College Women for the His-
tory of the American Association of Uni-
versity Women published in 1931.

Dean Dutton is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa; of the American Philological As-
sociation, the Archaeological Institute of
America, the Classical Association of Great
Britain, L' Association Guillaimie Bude, the
Classical Association of the Middle West
and South; the American Association of
University Professors, the National Asso-
ciation of Deans of Women, the Amer-
ican Association of University Women, the
League of Nations Association, the English-
Speaking Union, and the Women's Univer-
sity Club of New York.

After Ten Years

By Emily Helen Button, Dean 1923-1933

TEN years spent on our lovely campus
have flown so swiftly that it is hard
to believe the calendar which testifies
to my Sweet Briar anniversary, 1923-1933.
In 1923 there had been a dean at Sweet
Briar for only two years. She had no office
of her own, and no secretary and much of
the work of the dean had not been devel-
oped or organized; for the first time that
year we had 360 students. Hill House had

just been built and tlie rooms on the lowest
floor of Randolph had been altered to care
for additional students. In 1931-32 we en-
rolled 467 students and this year 450. The
General Freshman Adviser has been three
times replaced during these ten years and
has become also tlie assistant to the dean.
Our three offices are among die busy cen-
ters in Fletcher. This is of course only
part of the normal growth of the college,

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which in nearly every phase of its work
has developed in similar fashion: yet, we
believe, without losing the close relation-
ship among the students, the warm friend-
liness and affection between students and
faculty, or others of the finest character-
istics and traditions of Sweet Briar.

For a long time it seemed that no senior
class thought that it had made its proper
contribution to the college unless it had
secured some added "social privilege".
Gradually the social privileges have been
broadened until now it is doubtful whether
the classes can think of anything new for
which thev seriously wish to ask unless it
be the extension of the opportunities for
smoking which are also by this time rather
generous. Although the old gymnasimn is
now used only for purposes of recreation
and is known as the Grammer Common
Room, the Saturday night dances are still
held there — except when the number of
dates promises to be too large — and they
still keep their old name. That they have
not lost their interest appears from the
remark to me last winter of a New York
father who said that his daughter went for
a New Year's party with a merry group in
the city and came home saying. "No more
of that for me! I can have all tlie fun I
want at the Saturday night g^ms at Sweet
Briar."

There are a few of the activities of the
dean's oflGce about which I should espec-
ially like to tell you. One of them is the
administration of scholarship funds in
which Bertha Pfeister Wailes, '17, who is
on the committee, thinks the alumnae will
be particularly interested. As in most
other colleges, one of the big problems of
the past two years has been how to help
students to come to or to continue in col-
lege despite disheartening curtailment of
the family income. In 1923 when I became
chairman of the committee on scholarships
we gave eight tuition scholarships of
S280.00 each. That number had already
grown in one way and another before the
college fees were increased in 1931 from
S800.00 to Sl.000.00, S400.00 of which is
for academic tuition. At that time the
Board of Directors assigned from college
income for scholarship purposes $14,800-
.00; the tea house increased its contribu-
tion to 81,600.00: the bookshop promised
§600.00; and the alumnae raised the Man-

son Memorial Scholarship from $280.00 to
$400.00 that it might still cover the tuition
of one student. This gave us a total of
$17,400.00 which we might use in helping
good students who would otherwise not be
able to go on with their education. How-
ever, we set aside $300.00 of this for three
honor scholarships of SIOO.OO each, to be
awarded annually at Commencement to the
highest ranking student in the freshman,
sophomore, and junior classes respectively.
We also allotted $4,800.00 of the amount
for twelve competitive freshman scholar-
ships of $400.00 each, the competition to
be based on College Entrance Board exami-
nations in order that we might have a uni-
form method of judgment. Six of these
are held for Virginia students in case that
number of applicants from Virginia pass
die examinations, and the rest are open for
competition by students from all over tlie
country. At present there are seven appli-
cants from \ irginia and fourteen others
who are planning to take the examinations
this month for this competition. Most of
these come from some of the best prepara-
tory schools in the country.

Last year it early became evident that
we should lose many students for financial
reasons unless we could give them more
aid. Therefore, first in May and again in
August. President Glass went carefully
over the college budget, cutting it where
she could and postponing some plans in
order to appropriate additional special
emergency funds. As a result of this, we
actually made one hundred awards, includ-
ing the $100.00 honor scholarships and the
Sl.000.00 scholarship for our foreign stu-
dent. Kadie Straus, affectionately known as
■"Tinka" and beloved by every one, a de-
lightful German girl who came to us last
September through the Institute of Inter-
national Education. The grants varied in
general from $200.00 to .$400.00, according
to the needs of the students and amounted
finally to $24,422.00.

Another emergency measure was the
opening of Fergus Reid dining-room to
student ser\'ice for twenty girls at 8404.00
each, or a total of $8,080.00. All together,
therefore, the college in the year just closed
has assisted one hundred and twenty girls
to the amount of $32,522.00. This does
not include numerous other forms of self-
help, some of which, like the two assistants

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Sweet Briar College

in the bookshop, two in the library, and
several readers and laboratory assistants,
are paid from college funds. Besides these
there are assigned through the dean's office
outside agencies of all sorts — cleaning
agencies, agencies for flowers, for shoe
repair and various other things. Every
night in the week has been promised to
girls who have sold sandwiches at ten
o'clock, and a goodly number of girls have
earned most or all of their spending money
in some way or other during the past two
years. One girl for two years has not only
earned all her spending money, but also
her traveling expenses to her Illinois home
by selling little cakes from a Lynchburg
shop. In all, more than a third of the stu-
dents have this year had some form of help
administered for the college through the
dean's office.

President Glass has again squeezed the
budget for next year, cutting out many
things she had hoped to do, and has prom-
ised $7,500.00 as a special emergency fund.
We have decided to offer between fifty and
sixty dining-room service scholarships for
which the girls will wait on table an aver-
age of two meals a day and receive .S260.00
— the cost of their table board. This will
enable us to give one hundred and fifty or
more scholarship awards varying from
$100.00 to S540.00 in a few cases where a
girl will need to have both a college schol-
arship and a dining-room service scholar-
ship.

Sweet Briar mav seem to be a bit remote
from the worst experiences of unemploy-
ment and financial losses, but the appeal
of the stories of anxiety and need that lie
behind all these scholarship and self-help
awards makes me long desperately to help
more than is possible. Some members of
tlie facultv have been very generous in as-
sisting girls and we rejoice that the class
of 1933 makes its class gift of $600.00
toward the endowment of scholarship
funds. To help students to a college edu-
cation by establishing scholarship endow-
ments often interests people who would not
give to the college in any other way and
I cherish the hope that some of the alum-
nae may know some one who would take
pleasure in making such a gift. $8,000.00
at five per cent would yield a tuition schol-
arship of $400.00, would increase the col-
lege endowment, and free college funds for

the improvement of the college in other
needed directions.

In the face of this economic "storm and
stress period" Sweet Briar girls, like others,
realize that they are learning many valu-
able lessons. Many of them find that when
once college bills have been paid it is pos-
sible to live happily at Sweet Briar and
spend very little money — some who have
had allowances of $25.00 a month tell me
that they do very nicely on $6.00 or $7.00.
Most of them realize as never before that
"life is real, life is earnest", and there is
a new sense of the value of their college
education and of the self-denial it may cost
their parents. A detail which seems to be
partly a result of the present situation is
a greatly increased appreciation of the
excellent course of lectures and concerts
brought to the college from outside with-
out extra cost to the students and a new
understanding of the fact that a number
of advantages which involve extra charaes
in many places are included at Sweet Briar
in tlie general college fees.

Uppermost in my mind and plans for the
college is alwavs the improvement of aca-
demic scholarship. It is a source of much
gratification and pride that more and more
our students are going on for universitv
graduate study and that both they and
others who are engaged in various fields
of work are increasingly bringing distinc-
tion to their Alma Mater. Within the col-
lea;e nothing has done more to help the
whole intellectual atmosphere than tlie
Mary Helen Cochran library, which Dr.
Mary K. Benedict, a commencement visitor,
told me she thought one of the most beau-
tiful college libraries she had ever seen.
You alreadv know of some of the new
plans we have made recentlv for the pur-
pose of stimulating scholarship — especiallv
the reading for departmental horors. This
year a good besinning has been made on
this plan — three Juniors have been reading
for honors in the department of Philosophv
and Psvchologv. two in English, two in
Economics and Sociologv. one in French,
ore in History, and one in Classics. One
of the aims of this method is to arouse
more interest in study for its own sake and
to decrease the tendency to work for grades.
When a Junior honors student can write for
fourteen hours on a comprehensive exami-
nation covering the work of the vear in the

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equivalent of twenty-four semester hours
and at the end say that she had never en-
joyed doing anything so much in her life
and that she did not feel tired because she
had been so interested, something has been
accomplishd in tliis direction. That an A
grade was the result of that examination
is as natural as that the thermometer today
registers a temperature close to 90 degrees.

The special purpose of all comprehen-
sive examinations is to prevent working for
grades rather than for knowledge and
power, to lead to a correlation rather than
a pigeon-holing of what one learns and to
make it a permanent possession rather than
something to be held in the mind only until
the examination in a particular course.
With these objects in vieiv we have voted
to change the "College Honors"', previously
given to members of the graduating class
mainly on the basis of grades, to General
Honors in three ranks designated by cum
laude. magna cum laude. and sum,ma cum
laude, awarded both on the basis of grades
and the results of a comprehensive exami-
nation of not less than three hours in the
major subject. This examination is not
intended to be of the nature of a wide
range of facts, but rather a test of the
candidate's power of reflection and her
ability to employ the ideas and processes
characteristic of her major subject. A
student must have an average of B in order
to be eligible to take the examination, but
the average of her grades and her compre-
hensive examination must be well above B
in order to win General Honors.

Founders' Day Honors are to be replaced
by Junior Honors given to a few of the
highest ranking members of that class
based upon the work of the first two years.
These students are to have the exclusive use
of a Jtmior Honor Study in the library.

In order to encourage freshmen who are
successful in making the adjustments of the

first semester, the names of freshmen whose
grades are all B or who have an average
better than B for the first semester will be
published and an occasion will be made for
suitable recognition of them by the college.

Finally we are to have a Dean's List pre-
pared each semester based not on any defi-
nite grade, but consisting of sophomores,
juniors, and seniors recommended by the
instructors in most of their classes for
ability, dependability, and achievement.
For the following semester students on
this list may attend classes or not at their
own discretion, but a student may be re-
moved from the list at any time upon an
unfavorable report from her instructors.
We hope that this may tend to develop
both a greater sense of responsibility and
of freedom to work most effectively.

I hope these details have not wearied
you. We are eager to show you all the
new buildings when you come back to
Sweet Briar, but I like to think that you
are just as much interested in the invisible
college as in its brick walls, in all that goes
toward the building of higher scholarship,
stronger character, finer social attitudes
and greater sympathy and understandmg,
as well as the cementing and grovrth of
friendships and of love and loyalty for the
college in the making of which you have
had and will continue to have so large a
part.

As I may have no other chance to say it
to all of you, may I add one word of sin-
cerest appreciation and heart-felt gratitude
to the alumnae for their lovely, tlioughtful
gift in honor of my tenth anniversary and
especially to the presidents of tlie classes
of the last ten )'ears for their beautiful
letters which have touched me deeply?
Whenever you come to the campus do let
me have a chance to give you welcome.

Sweet Briar College

Trends in Admissions

Dear Alumnae:

You have been such splendid fellow-
workers in admissions this year that I wish
you to know how much your co-operation
is appreciated. This is an open letter of
gratitude for your cordial reception when
I have met you in groups, for your effi-
ciency in organizing meetings with pros-
pective students, and for your willmgness
to distribute catalogues and to approach
school principals, whose respect is invalu-
able.

I wish I could quote to you from some
of die letters from applicants telling of
your influence on them when they were
making their choice of college, ^our zest
in co-operating with us in immediate mat-
ters of admissions leads me to believe that
you may be interested to know about some
of the developments in the larger field of
admissions in this past year and Sweet
Briar's relation to them. So, in a spirit
of gratitude for your support, and with
the hope that your interest may be sus-
tained and your good work may be carried
on. we share with you our knowledge of
the background which lies behind the field
in which we work.

Sincerely yours,

Berin'ice DR-\KE LiLL,

RegistraT.

THIS has been a year of radical change
in admissions, a year which marks
the launching of certain definite ex-
periments after years of inquiry, criticism
and earnest study of admission problems.
Many of you are familiar with the criticism
of the examination basis of entrance as a
method causing undue strain at the end of
the school career, as a method fraught with
error because it placed too much emphasis
on a short period of sampling a student's
knowledge, and as a method unfair to the
student from a small school which could
not give special preparation for the exami-
nations. Yet many colleges of highest aca-
demic standards have retained these tests
because thev gave a common measurement
of all applicants, set a recognized standard
and partially relieved the colleges of the
well-nigh impossible task of comparing
varying standards amone schools. For

By Mrs. Bernice Drake Lill, Registrar

years the secondary schools have accused
the colleges of restricting them in their
eff'orts to develop and to cultivate mentally
(Webster's definition of '"educate") their

students who should go to college because
tlie necessity for meeting entrance units
prescribed by the colleges defeated this
goal. The system of deferring final ac-
ceptance of applicants until late July pre-
ceding their admission has been a cause of
considerable criticism of our northern col-
leges. An over-emphasis on marks with an
attendant lack of emphasis on character
traits, school activities, interests and am-
bitions has been another point of attack.
We at Sweet Briar may have enjoyed tlie
comfortable feeling of being "not guilty"
of some of these charges. It is true that
we have required the College Board exami-
nations only for those students whose
school certificates were found wanting be-
cause of the standards of the school con-
cerned or because of the quality of the in-
dividual record. We have given word of
provisional acceptance in February or May
preceding an applicant's entrance. We
have required detailed information about
character, interests and goals from appli-
cant and from school principal, placing
great weight upon this part of the creden-
tials. Two years ago we introduced a
modicum of flexibility in our unit require-
ment by providing for the acceptance of
non-standardized units which meet certain
standards, and we have made increasing
use of this provision in the past two years.
The announcement of new plans of ad-
mission by five northern women's colleges
came as a surprise to many, and some of
you have asked about the significance of
these changes to Sweet Briar. These plans,
called Plan C and Flan D, mark a distinct
lessening of emphasis on examinations,
pro\'ide for acceptance a year in advance
of admissions, and allow a spreading of
examinations into two successive years.
Under Plan C a candidate may receive pro-
^^sional acceptance at the end of her junior
year by taking two comprehensive exami-
nations and the Scholastic Aptitude Test
of the College Board, her final acceptance
depending upon the results of two remain-
ing examinations taken at the end of her

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senior year. Although this is still an ex-
amination method of entrance, it smooths
the path from school to college, establishes
a spirit of confidence in the applicant and
reduces the strain upon her at the end of
her school course. Plan D requires no ex-
aminations; it provides for the acceptance
of students on the basis of school certifi-
cate, unqualified recommendation and the
Scholastic Aptitude Test, provided these
students rank among the top seventh of
their graduating class during the two final
years in secondary school. At Sweet Briar
we are, of course, willing to accept students
under Plan C, and, further, we are willing
to consider applicants for our competitive
freshman scholarships on this basis. Plan
D is in many respects not unlike the
method of admission most generally in
practice at Sweet Briar. We have accepted
students provisionally on the basis of certi-
ficate, unqualified recommendation of prin-
cipal, and a standardized psychological
test. Our line has not been drawn at one-
seventh nor does it seem desirable for the
small college to draw this arbitrary line,
but rather to let us place the imaginary
line at varying levels suggested by our
knowledge of the standards of the various
schools concerned.

This announcement of two new plans of
admission to supplement the two plans
already in existence, this complication of
means of entrance, brings to my mind an
interview which I had less than two years
ago witli the headmistress of a prominent
college preparatory school for girls. The
principal criticized Sweet Briar for not
being either strictly a "certificate" college
or strictly an "examination" college. She
fairly said, "Of two things, one". I sym-
pathized with her then and extend further
sympathy now, for her hope of one perfect
and satisfactory method of admission is
one never to be realized. And as we en-
deavor to adapt methods to conditions,
they have a way of growing more compli-
cated.

Although diis announcement from the
group of northern colleges may have come
as a surprise to many, they are in reality
the result of many years of careful study.
Some of you may be interested to know
that for three years preceding May, 1932,
the School and College Relations Commit-

tee representing the two hundred educa-
tional institutions that make up the Edu-
cational Records Bureau had been studying
certain possibilities concerning admission
to college. In May of last year that com-
mittee reported its recommendations to
recognized colleges and miiversities through
the United States. This committee pro-
posed to the colleges (1) that they place
greater emphasis on the personal character-
istics of applicants; (2) that they consider
records of standard tests taken in consecu-
tive years in secondary schools; (3) that
they consider applicants a year before the
time of expected entrance; (4) that they
advise all students a year before entrance,
sending word of acceptance, advice to make
other plans, or a deferring of judgment;
(51 that they allow the schools more free-
dom in planning the work of the final year.
The faculty of Sweet Briar, on the recom-
mendation of the Committee on Admis-
sions, accepted these proposals with pro-
vision that the plan of work in secondary
schools must prepare students to carry the
courses prescribed for the degree.

About the same time another group of
educators, representing both schools and
colleges, made an interesting approach to
the colleges and universities of the country.
This committee of the Progressive Educa-
tion Association invited us to join in an
experiment which would allow a small
number of selected schools to recommend
for admission to college students prepared
under a "reconstructed" curriculum. The
committee proposed that it supervise the
work of these students and act as the agent
for bringing schools and colleges into
closer co-operation in guiding each stu-
dent's work. Admission of students under
this direction will depend not upon unit
requirements but upon recommendations as
to ability, purpose, and mastery in one or
more fields of study, and upon a history
of the student's school life including re-
cords of various types of examinations.
The Sweet Briar faculty voted its willing-
ness to enter into this experiment, subject
to the restrictions imposed by the college
curriculum and degree requirements in sub-
jects and in groups. Because of our pres-
ent degree requirements in fifty-eight or
sixty-four semester hours we are limited in

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OLD FAMILIAR SCENES

Alumnae News

Sweet Briar's Part in the Century of Progress

By Margaret

IF you are going to the Century of
Progress Exposition this summer, or
even if you aren't, as a matter of fact,
here is something that will interest you.
Sweet Briar has an exhibit at the Exposi-
tion. It would perhaps be more accurate
to say that Sweet Briar has part of an ex-
hibit, for it is one of eighteen women's
colleges which have joined together to
form the Women's College Board and,
through the courtesy of the publishers of
Time and Fortune, have established head-
quarters in the attractive Time-Fortune
Building for the five months of the Ex-
position, from June 1 to November 1.

This building is in the center of the
World's Fair activities, being located just
south of the Hall of Science and overlook-
ing the picturesque lagoon. From its bal-
conies and terraces may be seen the ac-
quatic sports and the Venetian gondolas
as well as the brilliant night illumination
first switched on by the beam from Arc-
turus on May 27th. Inside, in a huge air-
cooled room, seventy by seventy feet,
attractively furnished with comfortable
lounging chairs, tables, lamps, magazines,
the Women's Collea;e Board headquarters
have been set up, for the purpose of pro-
viding a central meeting place for the col-
lege women visiting the Fair, and of dis-
pensing information concerning the various
colleges to interested persons.

A secretary will be on duty at all hours
of the day, from ten in the mornina; until
ten at night. She will keep a card index
of all visiting alumnae, where they are
staying, their phone numbers, etc., and will
therefore form a clearing house of infor-
mation to help college women to find out
who is there and how to locate them. If
you go to Chicago, therefore, by all means
go to the Time-Fortune Building and regis-
ter.

Detailed information concerning each of
the member colleges is kept on file at head-
quarters and given out b}' the secretaries
to all who enquire. Names of persons de-
siring catalogues of any of the colleges are
taken and the college notified. And each
of the colleges has an exhibit, consisting
of literature, photographs, and a scrap
book, or portfolio. Sweet Briar has sent

Banister, '16

copies of its catalogue and other academic
bulletins, copies of the student handbook,
of this year's Briar Patch, and The Bram-
bler and Sweet Briar News, and packets of
photographs of campus scenes and activi-
ties. The college has also sent a set of nine
photographs designed to fit into a space 30
by 40 inches on a pedestal display, com-
prising a large central picture of the quad-
rangle formed by Gray, Carson, Randolph
and Manson with the Refectory in the cen-
ter: an airplane panorama of the college,
photographs of Fletcher Hall, the arcade
of Academic Building, Sweet Briar House,
the lake. Academic steps and balustrade,
the Alumnae Cabin and Daisy's Garden.
These photographs are hand tinted and
give a vivid and realistic impression of the
college. Our scrap book is of batik paper
in brown and beige, with brown leather
binding and Sweet Briar College in gold
lettering. The fly leaf carries a hand-
painted seal of the college, and the con-
tents are made up largely of photographs,
college views, activities and personalities,
as well as programs of the principal events
of this year.

The Chicago Alumnae Club, under the
leadership of Louise Lutz, '29, represents
Sweet Briar on the Women's College Board,
and the members of the Club will serve as
hostesses at headquarters at various times
during the Exposition. Sweet Briar alum-
nae are urged to make use of the head-
quarters, register with the secretary and
let the Sweet Briar hostesses know that
they are there.

The partial list of Sweet Briar hostesses
for the Century of Progress is as follows:
June 14, Elizabeth Hilton, '29, July 2,
Eleanor Goodwin, ex-'32, July 20, Eliza-
beth Pape, '24, and Virginia Little, ex-'22,
August 7, Helen Haseltine, '26, and August
25."Grace Sollitt, '28, and Louise Lutz, '29.

The Board is composed of representa-
tives from eighteen women's colleges,
namely: Barnard. Bryn Mawr, Connecti-
cut, Elmira, Goucher, Lake Erie, Milwau-
kee-Downer. Mount Holyoke, Radcliff',
Randolph-Macon, Rockford. Smith, Sweet
Briar, Trinity, Vassar. Wellesley. and
Wells.

Sweet Briar College

Of Books No End

Miscellaneous Suggestions for Summer Reading

Anthony, Katharine.

Bainville, Jacques,

Belloc, Hilaire,

Benson. E. F..

Chase. Stuart,
Churchill, Winston.

Croce, Benedetto,

Dabney, Virginius,

Donham, W. B ,
Grand Duke Ahxander,

Griffith, Gwilym 0.,

Guedalla, Philip.
Keller, A. G.,
Lockhart, R. H. Bruce.

Lumley, Frederick,
Mathews, John Joseph.

Maurois, Andre,
Maxton, James,

Miller, Bamette,

Nevins, Alan,
Raymond, Dora Neill,

Rachmanova, Alya

Rickard, T. A.,
Rodd, Sir Rennell

Salter, Sir James Arthur,
Sweig, Stefan,
Tawney, R. H.,
Tawney, R. H.,
Trevelyan, G. M.,

Webb, Walter Prescott,

ideals.

of the

Marie Antoinette. Alford A. Knopf, 1933

A study by the biographer of Catharine the Great. It is especially

intrresting as a contrast to Hilaire Belloc's life of the unfortunate queen
.Napoleon. Little, Brown, 1933

This translation by Hamish Miles makes the work available to a

wider circle.
Napoleon. Lippincott. 1932

The latest important English biography of an enigma.
.4s We .ire. Longmans, 1932

Less sparkling than .is We Were, but still good.
A New Deal. Macmillan, 1932
Thoughts and Adventures. Scribners, 1932

A prolific writer shows himself still possessed of interestin'; material.
History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century. Harcourt. 1932

Not hammock reading, but well worth the extra effort, even in sum-
mer time.
The Rise of Liberalism in the South
University of North Carolina Press. 1932

Brilliant observations by a rising publicist.
Business Adrift. McGraw-Hill. 1931
Always a Grand Duke. Farrar and Rinehart. 1933

A continuation of the interesting and historically valuable Once a

Grand Duke.
Mazzini: Prophet of Modern Europe. Harcourt, 1933

The study of a much feared politician who kept faith with his
Wellington. Harper, 1931
Man's Rough Road. Stokes. 1931
British .4gent. Putnam, 1933

A best seller that has real historical value for its treatment

Russian Revolution.
The Propogonda Men/ice. Centuiy, 1933
Wah' Kon-Tah, The Osage and the White Man"s Road.
University of Oklalioma Press. 1932
Voltaire. Appleton, 1932

Leaves a good deal to be said but says a good deal
Lenin. Appleton, 1932

A study of the Revolutionist by a member of the

British Labor Party.
Beyond the Sublime Port: the Grand Seraglio of Stamboul
Yale University Press, 1932

"First adequate description or history' of the family life of the Sultans

of Turkey." American History Review.

Professor Miller's work is based on personal contacts and life in

Istanboul at the American College as well as upon her scholarly train-
ing. Work of a woman wise and brilliant.
Graver Cleveland ; .4 Study in Courage. Dodd, 1932
Pulitzer Prize Award, 1933
Oliver's Secretary; John Milton in an Era oj Revolt. Minton. 1933

Highly enjoyable to the historically literate.

Penetrating defense of a Social Radical.
Flight from Russia. John Day, 1933

The diarv of a Russian student in 1917.
Man and Metals. McGraw-Hill, 1933
Rome of the Renaissance and Today. MacmiUan, 1933

A scholar and England's war-time Ambassador to Italy writes vividly

of departed and present Roman grandeur.
Recovery, the Second Effort. Century, 1932
.Marie .4ntoinette; the Portrait of an average Woman.
The .4quisitive Society. Harcourt, 1920
Equality. Harcourt. 1931. Halley Stewart Lecture, 1929
England under Queen Anne. Longmans, 1932.

The history of a fascinating age written in a fascinating manner.
The Great Plains. Ginn. 1931

After the school of the Beards, treating of the opening of the West,

in a style analytical and graphic in places.

brilliantly.

Left Wing of the

Vik:

mg rress,

1933

Alumnae News

Preachers to the College

1932

September

October

November

December

1933

January-

February

March

April

May

June

The Reverend Beverly D. Tucker, Jr., D. D., Richmond, Virginia.

The Reverend J. W. Burnham, D. D., Richmond, Virginia.

The Reverend James A. Mitchell, Alexandria, Virginia.

The Reverend J. D. Paxton, D. D., Lynchburg, Virginia.

The Reverend Churchill J. Gibson, D. D., Richmond, Virginia.

The Reverend Vincent C. Franks, Lexington, Virginia.

The Reverend R. Gary Montague. D. D., Richmond, Virginia.

The Reverend Wallace E. Rollins, D. D., Alexandria, Virginia.

The Reverend R. Murphy Williams, Greensboro, North Carolina.

The Reverend Edwin M. Slocombe, D. D., Lynchburg, Virginia.

Thanksgiving Service, President Meta Glass, Sweet Briar, Virginia.

The Reverend William Adams Brown, D. D., Union Theological

Seminary, New York City.
The Reverend Alexander C. Zabriskie, Alexandria, Virginia.
Christmas Carol Service.

Professor Thomas L. Harris, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
The Reverend E. Reinhold Rogers, Covington, Virginia.
The Reverend W. Aiken Smart, Emory University, Georgia.
The Reverend W. Cosby Bell, D. D., Alexandria, Virginia.
The Reverend Edwin M. Slocombe, D. D., Lynchburg, Virginia.
The Reverend Carl E. Grammer, S. T. D., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Reverend Harold E. B. Speight, D. D., Hanover, New Hampshire.
Dr. Sam Higginbottom, Allahabad Christian College, Allahabad,

India.
Dr. Hornell Hart, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
The Reverend J. N. Latham, D. D., Lynchburg, Virginia.
The Reverend Moses R. Lovell, D. D., Waterbury, Connecticut.
The Reverend Alexander C. Zabriskie, Alexandria, Virginia.
The Reverend Clifford L. Stanley, Alexandria, Virginia.
The Reverend S. L. Flickinger, D. D., Winchester, Virginia.
The Reverend Richard H. Lee, Chatham, Virginia.
The Reverend Ernest Van R. Stires, Richmond, Virginia.
The Reverend Charles E. Eder, Mount Airy, Pennsylvania.
The Reverend Alfred S. Lawrence, Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
Baccalaureate Sermon: The Reverend Halford E. Luccock, Divinity

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Soap Coupons

As you know, if you have read the
minutes of the Alumnae Meeting, our soap
campaign is to be continued for another
year. Now that you have the habit of
sending in your coupons please KEEP IT
UP. Save them through the summer and
send them in the first of September that
we may give you another report in the
October Alumnae News. Many of the
letters that have been received with the
coupons have expressed regret that there
were not more to send, some even hinted
that they hesitated to send so few, but
please rest assured that all are needed.
One of the letters received from a friend
of the college stated the matter extremely
well by saying, "Except I know that
pennies grow into dollars I would be
ashamed to send you so few coupons."
All of these "few^" ^vill some day grow
into the addressograph that we are so
anxious to have installed in the office.
We wash to express our appreciation to
the following friends, faculty, students and
alumnae for their co-operation. We also
wish to thank the many w'ho sent in cou-
pons wuth no name attached and ^ve are,
therefore, unable to list them.

FRIENDS OF THE COLLEGE
Mrs. L. C. Burwell
Mrs. W. R. Eaton
Miss Elizabeth Freeborn
Mrs. C. N. Fry
Mrs. W. B. Goodwin
Mrs. David Spence Hill
Mrs. W. D. James
Mrs. James R. Kent
Mrs. Fred C. Kirkendall
Mrs. C. B. Leech
Marinello Shop. Lynchburg
Miss Eula Mathews
Miss Mar>' Pinnental
Mrs. Tola Redford
Miss Ada Robinson
Mrs. J. A. Strickland
Mrs. R. H. Templeton
Mrs. J. Read Voigt
Miss Ruth Isabel Westcott
Mrs. Effie Wills

FACULTY .\i\D COMMUNITY
Mrs, James Abbitt
Mrs. J. E. Barker
Mrs. J. B. Beard
Mrs. W, C. Blackwell
Boxwood Inn
Miss Glass
Miss Hallet
Mrs. Jensen
Mrs. Bernard Jordan
Miss Long
Miss Marsh
Miss Morenus
Miss Gay Patteson
Miss Mattie Patteson
Miss Steele
The Walkers

Mrs. R. W. Watts
Miss Weaver

ACADEMY
Jessie Beavers Phillips
Daisy Bullard Richardson
Carina Eglesfield Mortimer
Christine Gholson Holeman
Jane Gregory Heyer
Emily Mxirston Cumnock
Dorothy Pryor Darby
Lois Richardson Murdock
Dorothy Swan Lent
Jane Tyler Griffith
Julia Wherry

1910
Eugenia Griffin Burnett

1911
Claudine Griffin Holcomh. ex- 'II

1912
Marie Abrams Lawson, ex-'12
Mary Gardner Lane, ex- "12

1913
Elizabeth Grammer Torrey
Mary Pinkerton Kerr
Bernice Richardson Campbell
Sue Slaughter
Man- Clark Rogers. cx-'13
Elizabeth Craven Westcott, cx-"13
Henrianne Early, ex-'13
Sue Hardie Bell, ex-'i3

1914
Ruth Maurice Gorrell
Henrietta Washburn
Grace Callan Bond. ex-'14

1915
Frances Pennypacker
Helen Baker Waller, ex-*15
Jessie Darden Christian, ex-'15
Martha Nines Dixon, ex-"15

1916
Margaret Banister
Mary Pennypacker Davis

1917
Polly Bissell Ridler
Rachel Lloyd Holton
Bertha Pfister Wailes
Anna Beveridge Leake, ex-'17
Hazel Roberts Peck, ex-'17

1918
Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge
Elizabeth Lowman Hall
Marianne Martin
Julia Barber Taylor, ex-'18
Louise Jones Raeger, ex-'18
Marie Lorton Sims, ex-'18
Laura W oodbridge Foster, ex- "18

1919
Katherine Block
Caroline Sharpe Sanders

1920
Helen Beeson Comer
Elmyra Pennypacker Coxe
Isabel Webb Luff

1921
Josephine Ahara MacMillan
Rhoda Allen Worden
Elizabeth Cole
Catherine Cordes Kline
Mattie Hammond Smith
Florence Ives Hathaway
Mary McLemore Matthews
Shelley Rouse Aagesen
Ruth Simpson Carringlon. ex- '21

Sweet Brur College

1922
Gertrude Dally
Amey Smythe

Martha Folk Shaffer. ex-'22
Mary Hackman Cohill. cx-'?.2
Katherine Hartt. ex- "22
Mary Klump Watson, ex-'22
Margaret Marston Tillar, ex-'22

1923
Jane Guignard Thompson
Katherine Hancock Land
Mary McCaw
LaVern McGee Olney
Helen McMahon
Edith Miller McClinlock
Elizabeth Taylor Valentine
Frances Inslev Jacobs. ex-''23
Catherine M^'ller Pollard ex-'23
Mary Payne Millner, ex-*23
Margaret Wise O'Neal, ex-'23

1924
Florence Bodine Mountcastle
Susan Fitchett
Caroline Flynn Eley
Martha Lobingier Lusk
Lorraine McCrillis
Helen Mowry Fell

1925
Jane Becker Clippinger
Dorothy Herbison Hawkins
Margaret Hague Pfantz
Gertrude McGiffen MacLennon
Martha McHenry Halter
Cordelia Kirkendall Buckman. e

1926
Dorothy Bailey Hughes
.•Vnne Barrett Allaire
Katherine Blount
Mary Bristol Graham
Gertrude Clark Carlson
Marguerette Denman Wilson
Adelaide Douglas Rushlon
Wanda Jensch Harris
Dorothy Keller
Edna Lee Wood
M. Joyce MacGregor
Helen Mutschler Becker
Katharyn .Yorris Kelley
Lois Peterson
Dorothea Reinburg Fuller
Margaret Reinhold
Virginia Lee Taylor Tinker
Ruth Johnston Bowen, ex-'26
Mary Prange, ex- '26

1927
Martha Ambrose Nunnally
Evelyn Anderson Tull
Jeannette Boone
Daphne Bunting Klopslock
Elizabeth Gates Collins
Pauline Cloud
Caroline Compton
Virginia Davies
Elizabeth Forsythe
Elsetta Gilchrist
Ruth Lowrance Street
Elizabeth Mathews Wallace
Gretchen Orr Staples
Pauline Payne
Cornelia Wailes
Virginia Wilson
Beatrice Garson Arndt. ex-"27
Gwin Harris Scott, ex-'27
Mary Thomson Harrod, ex- '27

1928
Rose Berger
Page Bird Woods
Louise Bristol Lindemann
Dorothy Bunting
Frances Goyner Huffard
Harriet Dunlap Towill
Margueritte Hodnett McDaniel
Charlotte Horton
Marion Jayne Berguido
Elizabeth Jones Shands
Katherine LeadbeatcT
Ann Beth Price Clark

Grace Sunderland Kane

Virginia Van Winkle Morlidge

Alice E. Webb

Lillian Lee Wood

Eleanor Branch Cornell, ex- '28

Mary Nelms Locke. ex-'28

Eleanor Tame Drummond, ex-'28

1929
Mar>- Archer Bean Eppes
Kate T. Coe
Dorothy Fowler
Emilie Giese Martin
Amelia Hollis Scott
Josephine Kluttz Ruffin
Elizabeth Lankford Miles
Mildred Earle Lewis
Isabel jS'orth Goodwin
Bessie A. Peters
Gertrude Prior
Julia A, Thomas
Esther Tyler Campbell
Charlotte X^Tiinnery
Virginia Chaffee Gynn, ex-'29
Elizabeth Greason, ex-"29
Margaret Green, ex-'29
Frances Guthrie, ex- '29
Margaret MacKoy Clifford. ex-'29
Elizabeth Payne, ex-'29

1930
Grace Ferguson
Mary Johnson Huntington
Myra Marshall
Elizabeth Marston
Caroline Martin dale
Lucy Harrison Miller
Gwendolyn Olcott
Wilhelmina Rankin
Norvell Royer Orgain
Jean Saunders
Lucy Shirley
Elizabeth Stevenson
Mildred Stone Green
Gladys Wester Horton
Josephine Abernethy Turrentine, ex-'30
Elizabeth Games, ex-'30
Fanny Penn Ford, ex-'30
Dorothea Paddock. ex-'30
Augusta Porter Orr. c*x-'30
Leslie Turner, ex- '30
Lillian Wood, ex-'30

1931
Elizabeth Clark
Virginia Cooke
Ellen Eskridge
Margaret Ferguson Bennett
Josephine Gibbs
Charlotte Kent Pinckney
Virginia Quintard
Isabel Solomon
Martha von Briesen
Marj ori e A. Webb
Peronnc Whittaker
Ella Williams
Nancy Worth ington
Dorothy Ayres Holt, ex- '31
Rosalie Faulkner, ex- '31
Nancy Gaines, ex- '31
Polly Swift Calhoun, ex- '31
Virginia White, ex-'31

1932
Virginia Bellamy
Mildred Gibbons
Sara Bright Gracey
Susan Marshall
Marcia Patterson
Dorothy Smith
Alice Weymouth
Virginia Jemison, ex- '32
Lillian Wilkinson, ex-'32

1933
Margaret Austin
Adah Barber
Mary Elizabetli demons
Lois Foster
Margery Gubelman
Geraldine Mallory
Warwick Rust

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Royal Cauldon plates and services.

A new note oF interest is that the Sweet Briar border
pattern has now been applied to tea^ after dinner
coffee and other services.

These pieces, individually or in sets, make delight-
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Trends in Admissions

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our ability to experiment and to co-operate
in these educational movements, but a
liberal and interested spirit marks the atti-
tude of our faculty in these matters.

Under the auspices of these two commit-
tees and of a committee of the American
Council on Education and of the Educa-
tional Records Bureau, a conference on
admissions was held in New York on
November 3, 1932. It was a notable occa-
sion attended by more than four hundred
delegates from colleges, universities and
schools. It was the happy privilege of
your registrar to represent Sweet Briar at
this conference, a meeting which in eager-
ness of spirit, interest in its problems, and
desire to co-operate was an inspiration in-
deed. It was the consensus of opinion at
this conference that the emphasis in admis-
sions should be away from unit require-
ments and measurements of time devoted
to subjects, and pointed toward the student,
her capacity, her power, her "present
worth". In order to have measurements
of these things it was urged that colleges
consider records of examinations designed
to measure growth in the successive years
in secondary school by means of compar-
able objective tests: that entrance creden-
tials include records of each student's
school activities; and that the colleges co-
operate with the schools by accepting pro-
visionally, years in advance, students who
are profiting by the kind of secondary edu-
cation which augurs well for successful
continuation.

A word about Sweet Briar in relation to
these trends may be pertinent. As most of
you know, we have for several years re-
quired definite information about each
applicant's school activities and interests,
seeking this information from both the
school and the applicant. We have used
the American Council Psychological ex-
amination in order to have a common test
of capacity or skill by which we could
compare our applicants. The Committee
on Admissions has been interested in the
comparable tests given in hundreds of
schools each year under the direction of
the Educational Records Bureau, although
the occasion to use these tests has not been
great. The faculty has voted its willing-

ness to have us consider these records
among entrance credentials, and we antici-
pate some interesting admissions meetings
with these new records before us. With
regard to the early provisional acceptance
of candidates the Admissions Committee is
heartily agreed upon its desirability. Each
year brings before us applicants whose
problems would have been smoothed away
had they been properly advised about their
course for the final year in school. A great
deal of suffering could be prevented if col-
leges could advise applicants a full year
before admission that they should be mak-
ing other plans. Applicants who are in
every way desirable would have happier
senior years in school were they given pro-
visional acceptance before that final year.
However, in order to co-operate fully in
this plan it seemed necessary for us to have
an additional piece of educational ma-
chinery — namely, a meeting of the Com-
mittee on Admissions in the summer when
the records of three years' work would be
complete. In sending our reply from
Sweet Briar regarding the consideration of
applicants a full year in advance we were
quite conservative, and the published re-
port of our reply might lead to a misun-
derstanding of the liberal and co-operative
attitude we hold toward this important
question. Many of you may have noted
from the new catalogue statement that we
advise applicants to present credentials a
full year in advance of entrance. The
consideration of the records which are now
reaching us for applicants to enter in 1934
is devolving this year upon the registrar
and such administrative officers and such
members of the Committee on Admissions
as may be available. It appears that this
summer. President Glass, Dr. Gary Hudson
and Mrs. Lill will initiate the new practice
of provisional acceptance before the final
year of preparation.

This past year has thus been a vital one
in defining our ends and suggesting new
means in admissions. The goal toward
which we work is a co-ordinating of the
educational process. To this end we have
plans for early provisional acceptance; we
place greater emphasis on all measure-
ments of growth and achievement through-
out the school course; we seek to co-operate
with schools which wish to experiment in
curricula adapted to needs of students

Alumnae News

rather than to units prescribed by colleges.
By this we do not mean that we should
encourage the substitution of vocational or
technical courses for those subjects which
we believe to have more cultural value.
And we do sympathize with the more
progressive schools in their desire for a
more unified, integrated course which may
include few subjects or units but which
will place emphasis on the correlation of
their work. The trend is away from one
set of measurements as entrance criteria
and toward a number of measurements ex-
tending over a longer period of time. In
some of these trends Sweet Briar finds her-
self near the vanguard, in other near the
front with an interested and liberal attitude
and confident of the good things to come.
Sweet Briar both contributes towards these
developments and reaps from them her
share of benefits.

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Class Personals

(Editor's Note — The Editor is embaiTassed
beyond words to tell you that owing to an ac-
cident in the Cabin, when the janitor did unwar-
ranted, thorough house-cleaning nine of the
Class Personals, so kindly sent in by the Class
Secretaries, were destroyed.)

ACADEMY

Henrietta Spafford Clapp has moved from
Tampa to Winter Haven, Florida, to live.

Clarisa Starling Peterson stopped at Sweet Briar
on April 24. She spent several days motoring
through Virginia during garden club week.

Julia Baxter Scott Cramer is the President of
the Charlotte Junior League. She has three chil-
dren.

Eleanor Kingsbury Wiggins has moved from
Westport, Connecticut, to New York City to live.

Kathleen Sexton Holmes has returned to her
home in Washington. D. C. after spending a
month in Hatelhurst, Mississippi.

Jane 7"y/er Griffith has moved from New York
City to Wellesley Hills. Massachusetts, to live.

Margaret Eaglesfield Bell spent a day on campus
during the last of April. She was motoring
through Virginia for garden club week.
1910

Class Secretary, Annie Powell Hodges (Mrs.
William T.I, 47 Ccurtland Place, Meadowbrook,
Norfolk, Virginia.

1911

Class Secretary, Josephine Murray Joslin (Mrs.
J. Whitman. Jr.), 32 S. William Street. Johns-
town, New York.

Claudine Griffin Holcomb. ex-"ll, spent a day
on campus this spring.

1912

Class Secretary, Elsie Zaegel Thomas (Mrs.
I. C), 200 Euclid Av nue, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Mary Garden Lane, ex-"12, will spend the
month of July at Nantucket.
1913

Class Secretary, Elizabeth Crammer Torrey
(Mrs. Donald F.I, 530 Brookhurst Avenue, Nar-
beth, Pennsylvania.

Dear Class of 1913 — This was our twentieth
reuninon. Sue Slaughter, Mary Pinkerton Kerr,
Bessie Franke Balls, and myself were on hand.
We all longed for our class mates. Letters came
to me, as your class secretary, from Eugenia
Biiffington Walcott, Frances Richardson Pitcher,
Rebecca White Falsch, Helen Laniform Neiman,
and Bernice Richardson Campbell. Eugenia has
a daughter Betsy, two years old, whom they
adopted when she was a tiny baby. They spent
March in New Smyrna, Florida, According to
her letters, farming is a serious business with
Eugenia.

Frances Richardson Pitcher is now able to in-
dulge her fancy for antiques. They have re-
modeled an old barn in Vermont, near Man-
chester, to use as a summer home. Frances, ac-
companied by her husband, spent several weeks
in Bermuda after Easter.

Bessie Franke Balls is now living in Washing-
ton, D. C, after spending three years in Prague
where her husband studied at the University.

Helen Lamform Neiman writes she has been in
her father's clothing business since her husband
died in service in the war. Her only child, Betty
Gene, is to enter Sweet Briar in 1936.

Bernice Richardson Campbell has been Presi-
dent of the Watertown Woman's Club for two
years, and has also been Chairman of the Un-
employment Relief Committee for two winters.
She writes that her daughter, aged 14, and her
son, aged 10, are a great help to her in running
her home.

Sue Slaughter continues with her work as
Chairman of the Associated Charities in Norfolk.

Rebecca White Falsh writes that she is a busy
housewife with two daughters, one 14 and the
other 10.

Mary Pinkerton Kerr is spending the summer
at the University of Virginia where she will con-
tinue her work for her M.A. in biology.

Dr. Margueretta Ribble is practicing medicine
in Kansas where she is specializing in psychiatry.
She has adopted a child.

My husband and I spent a week in Charleston,
South Carolina, after Easter. While there I saw
Dorothy Wallace Ravenel, ex-'14, and Antoinette
Camp Hagood, "16, took us to see many beauti-
ful gardens.

Dr. Connie Guion, honorary member of the
class of 1913, has been appointed Chief of the
Cornell Clinic at Cornell Medical Center. She
is the first woman ever to hold that po'sition, and
we are very proud of her.

Vivian Moseman Groves, ex-'13, had as her
guest early in May her former roommate, Lorine
Eikenberry Wilmer, Academy, her husband and
two sons. Vivian's daughter plans to enter Sweet
Briar in 1936.

Meta Bryan Graves. ex-'13, writes that bring-
ing up three sons — 14, 11, and 9 — is her career.

Louise Glass Marzoni, ex-'13, has two sons.

Dunbar Aviritt Annan, ex-'13, is living at their
family place in Cumberland, Mainland. She
has one son, aged 7.

Bessie Grammer Torrey.

Lucian Thomson. 11, Alice Greenleaf. and Frances
Swain, children of Alice Swain Zell, '14

Alumnae News

1914

Class Secretary, Henrietta Washburn, 2030
Delaney Place, Philadelphia.

Rebecca Patton spent several weeks in Florida
this winter.

Laura Portman Mueller, accompanied by Mr.
Mueller, visited the campus this spring.

Theodosia Clark, ex-'14, is living in Evanston
and is working in a Tourist Bureau.

Sallie Miller Bennett, ex-" 14, is living in
Charleston, South Carolina.

Florence Anderson, ex-'14, is a Social Service
worker in the Philadelphia General Hospital.
He^RIETT.\ W.iSHBURN.

1915

Class Secretary, Harriet Evans Wychoff (Mrs.
G. Bernard), 3252 S Street, N. W., Washing-
ton, D. C.

It has been great fun hearing from three of
1915 and I only hope before the next copy of
the News goes to press Fll have lots more chat
of our members and ex-raembers as I'm going
back to college for finals.

Frances Pennypacker writes she is still busy as
laboratory technician at Wilmington hospital
and has an assistant. She would like to have
come back for reunion but is saving her pennies
to attend the first convention of The American
Society of Laboratory Technicians, which meets
in Chicago June 12th and 13th.

Louise Weisiger writes she is always too rushed
this time of year to get back to college, as she
is still assistant principal of Thomas Jefferson
High School in Richmond.

Clare Erck Fletcher writes from Leesburg,
Florida, she is very happy bringing up her little
daughter of three and a half and directing a
large Choral Club which gave as its Spring con-
cert Gilbert & Sullivan's lolanthe. She also
teaches vocal. She finds farming not very re-
munerative these days.

Hester Anderson Parsley, ex-'15, had twins,
born last November. This makes five children.

Dorothy Brothers Kelley, ex-'15, accompanied
by her husband, stopped at the college for a
day during April on their way to their home in
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Jared Irwin Wood. Jr., the eight months old son

of Rachael Forbush Wood. ex-"16. with his Aunt

Edith (Edith Forbush, ex-"18)

1916

Class Secretary', Felecia Patton, Beechmoor,
Catlettsburg, Kentucky.

1917

Class Secretary, Virginia Sandmeyer Hudson
(Mrs. John H.), 1007 North Main Street, Carroll-
ton, Missouri.

Bertha Pfister Wailes plans to attend Columbia
University this summer to continue her work to-
ward a Ph.D.

Virginia Sandmeyer Hudson has a child six-
teen months old.

1918

Class Secretary, Margaret McVey, 1417 Grove
Avenue. Richmond, Virginia.

Amy Elliott Jose, ex-'lB, is successfully running
a Book Club.

Dorothy Day Molineux, ex-'18, has moved from
Cleveland to 99 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, Con-
necticut.

1919

Class Secretary. Louise Hammond Skinner
(Mrs. Frederick H.), 333 57th Street, Newport
News. Virginia.

Elizabeth Eggleston has been spending some
time with the Ralph Adams Cram's at their home
in Sudbury, Massachusetts. This winter Eliza-
beth will be associated with the Dorothea Day
Watkins Private School in Hampden-Sydney. The
children for this school will range in age from
six to twelve years and Elizabeth will instruct
them in Marionettes and Dramatics. Elizabeth
has been working this spring toward reviving
and building up an interest among the Negroes
of Prince Edward County in the best of their old
spirituals. She hopes to build to a real festival
of Negro music for this county.
1920

Class Secretary, Dorothy Wallace, 4004 Round
Top Road, Northwood, Baltimore, Maryland.

Helen Beeson Comer has a daughter, bom on
January 20. She has been named Catherine
Clara Comer.

Dorothy Wallace spent several days on campus
the last of May.

1921

Class Secretary, Maynette Rozelle Stephenson
(Mrs. James A.), 1220 Tecumseh .Avenue, South
Bend. Indiana.

Margaret Buriiell Graves spent a day on camp-
us this spring.

Dorothy Job Robinson had as her guests dur-
ing May Amy n'iUiams Hunter, '25, and her
husband. Dorothy has been doing family wel-
fare work in connection with the Woman's In-
stitute.

Ruth Geer Boice, ex-'21, spent May Day on
campus.

1922

Class Secretan'. Burd Dickson Stevenson (Mrs.
Frederick J.), 608 Maple Lane, Shields, Penn-
sylvania.

Maylon Newby Pierce has moved to Coral
Gables to live.

Margaret Menk is working in a Gift Shop at
her home in Pittsburgh.

Amy Smyth and Lilias Shepherd both spent
several days on campus the May Day week-end.
1923

Class Secretary, LaVern McGee Onley (Mrs.
Alfred C, Jr.), 831 H. Avenue, Coronado Beach,
California.

Gertrude Geer Bassett was on campus for May
Day.

1924

Class Secretary, Eleanor Harned Arp (Mrs.
Louis Croft), 1525 29th Street, Moline, Illinois.

Marion Swannelt Wright spent a day on camp-
us this spring while touring through Virginia.

Gwendolyn Watson Graham has a second son,
born April 18.

Mollie Stark, the two year old daughter of
Louise Ifolf Stark, ex-'25

Alumnae News

Harold James Carrington has a son, born re-
cently.

Carolyn Flynn Eley has a son, Frederick
Henrj', born last August 25.

Virginia Lewis ex- "24, is now Mrs. J. A.
Scofield and has moved to West Los Angeles
to live.

1925

Class Secretaiy, Jane Becker Clippinger (Mrs.
John C), 4021 LaCrosse Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Isabel Greason is now Mrs. L. J. Cooper and
is still living in Essex Falls.

Elizabeth MacQueen Nelson spent several days
on campus during May.

Maiy Elizabeth Welch is now Mrs. S. P. Hemp-
hill and lives in Nicholasville, Kentucky.

Ruth Taylor Franklin has a son, Donald Cam-
eron, Jr., born on December 5, 1932.

Gertrude McGiffen MacLennan with her two
sons stopped at the college on her way from
Florida, where she spent the winter, to her home
in Milwaukee.

Dorothy Leatham Nelson, ex-"25, visited her
brother this winter at his home in Summit, New
Jersey. She stopped at the college on her way
home with Loiuse Wade, e-X-"25.

Ethel Hook Invin, ex-'25, has moved from Pitts-
burgh to Beaver, Pennsylvania, to live.
1926

Class Secretary, Mary Bristol Graham (Mrs.
Lawrence B.), Dorchester Road, East Aurora,
New York.

Edna Lee Wood, accompanied by Mr. Wood,
spent several days on campus the end of May.

Dorothy Bailey Hughes has moved to Cleveland,
Ohio, to live. Her new address is 3048 Chad-
burne Road, Shaker Heights, Cleveland.

Margaret Posey was married on April 12 to
Mr. Henry Clarence Brubaker and has moved to
216 East King Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Margaret Elliot Manning is completing, this
June, a course in art at the University of South
Carolina.

Martha Bachman McCoy has an article in the
May issue of the Junior League Magazine en-
titled "Look Away Down South."

Mary Loughry Arthur has a son, Thomas Ford,
born April 29.

Adelaide Douglas Rushton has returned to her
home in Birmingham, after spending some time
with her parents in Washington, D. C.

Helen Haseltine is doing special work at the
University of Chicago and at the Juvenile Court
in Chicago.

1927

Class Secretaiy, Pauline Payne, 233 Kevin
Place, Toledo, Ohio.

Man' Vizard Kelley has moved from New
Rochelle to Scarsdale, New York, to live.

Caroline Compton visited Mildred Stone Green,
'30, at her home in Natchez, Mississippi, during
garden week this spring.

Sue Milligan Hutchinson has a son, bom last
fall.

Elise Morley Finke has made several trips to
New York this winter.

Janet MacKain Allen has moved from Orange
to Montclair, New Jersey.

Priscilla Kelley, die ten months old daughter of
Kathaiyn Norris Kelley, '26

Julia Reynolds Dreisbach, ex-'27, has moved
from Flushing, Long Island, to 4336 Tacoma
Avenue. Foit Wayne, Indiana.

Marion Miller, ex-'27, was married on Februaiy
15 to Mr. W. Witt Barbee of Norfolk, and has
moved to 2011 Park Avenue, Richmond.

Nancy Campbell Schrider, ex- "27, writes that
she has two little girls, Bess Ann and Rosalie.
1928

Class Secretaiy, Helen Davis, 507 West Second
Street, Muscatine, Iowa.

Bess Lowrance was on campus for a day on
her way to her home from spending some time
in Washington, D. C.

Lillian Lee Wood has returned to New York
to continue studying painting at the Art Students
League.

Ann Beth Price Clark and Mr. Clark will
spend the summer in Mexico, where Mr. Clark
will study the economic conditions of that
countiy.

Clarisse Ellis has been elected the President
of the Salt Lake branch of the American As-
sociation of University Women.

Betty Prescott Balch has a son, James, born
on Februaiy 24.

Jean W iiliamson Bridges has a son, Frank
Gordon, III, born on March 19.

Maiy Lee spent the May Day week-end on
campus.

1929

Class Secretaiy, Anna Torian, 1802 North
Talbott Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana.

First of all, I want to thank those of you who
responded to my plea. I appreciated it no end
and I hope you will remember me in time for
the fall issue, which goes to press the first day
of October. And how about some new recruits'?
We would like to hear from all of you.

An now for business. There are several mar-
riages to report this time, in spite of the de-
pression.

Adela Dillard ("Pet") Sheppard was married
to Mr. Edmund Strudwick Nash, Jr., on Satur-
day, April 22, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Winston-Saleni. They are living in Hemp, North
Carolina.

Sweet Briar College

Lee Sidman sent me an announcement of her
marriage to Mr. Herbert LeRoy Smith, Jr., which
took place on April 19, in Montclair, New Jersey.

Beulah Ii-ving was mamed to Dr. Robert James
Vaughan, I.I.S.N., on April 26, in Portsmouth,
Virginia. They will spend the summer in Ithaca,
while Dr. Vaughan takes a course at Cornell
University. This fall they will be in Washington,
D C, at the U. S. Naval Hospital.

Edna Earl McGehee, ex-'29, was married on
April 8, to Mr. Joseph Lawson Pleasants, Jr.

And there were several Sweet Briar daughters
born lliis year. Maiy Fulton Garstang. ex-'29,
has a beautiful baby daughter, Mary Pierson,
bom on March 8.

Margaret Monciire Johnson has a daughter,
Margaret Moncure, born on January 4.

Alwyn Redmond Barlow is planning to take
her fourteen-months-old daughter, Sallie Boyce,
to commencement this year to witness the gradua-
tion of Ahvyn"s sister, Mildred Redmond. Jessie
Exley Wooten spent a week with the Barlows at
their home in East Point. Georgia, last month.

Janet Bruce Bailey writes that she has a son,
Peter Gregory, born on April 6.

Adelaide Henderson Cabaniss and her husband
are going to spend week-ends this summer cruis-
ing off the South Carolina coast and exploring
the historic islands thereabouts in their sail boat.

"Dot" Joliffee Uraer enjoyed a reunion, after
five years, with Alice Harrold, '28, recently. Alice
was visiting in Washington and looked "Dot"
up when she went through Frederick, Mainland.

Kate Coe has just returned from a trip to
California via the Panama Canal. She visited
many interesting places on the way, including
South America and Mexico.

Mary Shelton Clark stopped at the college with
her son, George, Jr., en route to her home in
Boston after spending a month in Chattanooga.

Amelia Poe Woodward was mamed on May 6
to Mr. Maurice Davier, and has moved to Plain-
field, New Jersey, to live.

Nora Lee Antrim and Hallet Gubelman were
on campus May Day week-end.

Ella Parr Phillips has been spending a month
in New York City.

Emily Braswell has returned from a cruise to
the West Indies and also an air trip that cov-
ered more than 18,000 miles, going 900 miles a
day. This trip took in British Guiana, French
Guiana, Brazil, Paraguay, Urugway, Argentina,
Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and
Venezuela.

Louise Dcdley Sturhahn has moved from Char-
lottesville, Virginia, to Atlanta, Georgia.

Hulda Williams Lambert accompanied by Mr.
Lambert stopped at Sweet Briar on her way
from Florida to her home in New York City.

Louise Chapman Plamp, ex-'29, has twin girls,
born on Januaiy 20. They have been named
Barbara and Lydia and are entered for Sweet
Briar, 1950.

Helen Louise Pike, ex-'29, has announced her
engagement to Mr. Sherod B. Scott.

Jane Dillon, ex-"29, has announced her engage-
ment to Mr. Richard Johnston.

Margaret McKay, ex-'29, is now Mrs. George
E. Clifford and is living in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Charlene Steele, ex-'29, was married April 1
to Mr. John Bayly Tayse, Jr., in Fort Worth,
Texas.

Lois Mcllroy is doing secretarial and statistical
work for Butler Bros., wholesale merchandise
firm, in Chicago.

Gert Prior has been working on her Master's
at the University of Pennsylvania this winter
and is planning to be at Sweet Briar at com-
mencement. She tells me that they have organ-
ized an Alumnae Club in Trenton now. Bravo!
Martha Dabney Jones is doing United Thank
Offering work for the Episcopal Church in
Oregon. She does young peoples" work for an
area of about 6,000 miles, which she says is
"mostly sage brush, juniper trees and Indians."
She is going back to Virginia for her vacation in
August this year. Her address out there is 1420
Pacific Terrace, Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Barbara Boyer Backus, ex-'29, announced her
engagement to Mr. Edward Huntington Jewett,
Jr., on February 11, in Detroit.

This winter I went down to New Orleans for
Mardi Gras. There I ran into Bonnie Mathews,
'28. She is married and living in New Orleans
now. Then spent a month in Sewanee.

Hope I'll run into some of you all at the
World's Fair this summer.
Sincerely,

Nan Torian.
1930
Due to the resignation of Merry Curtis as
Class Secretary the Council takes pleasure in
announcing the appointment of Mai7 Macdonald
as the new Secretai7 for 1930. Her address is
1503 Duncan Avenue, Chattanooga. Tennessee.

Katryne Blake Moore has a son, Edward Blake,
born March 31.

Alice Tucker Jones will be married on June
28 to the Reverend George Alfred Taylor, rector
of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Albany, New
York.

Mary Huntington has announced her engage-
ment to Mr. Edmund Webster Hanison.

Jane Callison Smith has a daughter, Sarah
Callison, born March 29.

Helen Smith Miller has moved to Albrook Field,
Canal Zone, to live.

Alice Barber is a case worker for the United
Charities.

Meriy Curtis is a case worker with Bureau of
Public Welfare.

The Alumnae Association records with deep
regret the death of Mary Clark Feree ex-"30.

Frances Barnett, ex-'30, will be married on
June 24 to Lieutenant George Dakin Crosby.

Lisle Turner, ex-'30, will graduate this June
from Vanderbilt University.

Josephine Abernethy Turrentine, ex-'30, has a
son, Walter W., Jr., born May 7. Her daughter,
Josephine, was the first child born to a member
of the class of 1930.

The following girls returned for the May Day
week-end: Norvell Royer Orgain, Caroline Martin-
dale, Elizabeth Williams, Elizabeth Stevenson,
Telia Barksdale, Myra Marshall, and Gratia Geer
Howe, ex-'30.

1931
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Charlotte Kent was manied on June 17 to Mr.
Thomas Pinckney. Jessie Hall and Marjorie
Miller, '32, were both in the wedding party.

Martha McBroom Shipman has a son, Franklin
L., Jr., born May 17.

Marjorie Webb is doing case work for the
Family Welfare Association in Baltimore, Mary-
land.

Jean Cole has been the assistant stage manager
for a Stock Company in Nashville, Tennessee.

Jane Muhlberg will be married on June 29 to
Mr. Albert Nast Halverstadt.

Mai-y Whitfield Pearsall was maiTJed on June
10 to Mr. Jack Wingate Smith. Margaret Way-
land, '33, was her maid of honor.

Martha van Briesen spent part of her spring
vacation visiting Nancy Worthington at Sweet
Briar.

Elizabeth Goff, ex-'31, was married to Mr.
Donald Neuhall on June 17.

Polly Swjft Calhoun, ex-'31, has a son, David
Swift, bom May 14.

The following girls returned to the campus for
the May Day week-end: Jane Muhlberg, Natalie
Roberts, Helen Lawrence, Elizabeth Conover Grat-
ten, Peronne Whittaker, Elizabeth Clark, and
Ella WiUiams.

1932

Class Secretary, Dorothy Smith, P. O. Box
1395, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Jane White has announced her engagement to
Mr. William Christie Hen-on, II, of Beverly Hills,
California.

Marcia Patterson spent part of her spring
vacation at Sweet Briar.

Hazel Stamps spent several days on campus
this spring.

The following girls were on campus over the
May Day week-end : Alice Weymouth, Betsy Hig-
gins, Nancy Wilson, Virginia Bellamy, Virginia
ffoH Lindley, Elizabeth Doughtie, Mildred Gib-
bons, Mary Moore Pancake, Emily Maxwell, Sue
Burnett, Alice Dabney, Sally Ainsworth, Irene
Kellog, Eleanor Mattingly, Helen Pratt, Sarah
Harrison, Susan Marshall, and Elizabeth Douglas.

Sarah Phillips spent several days on campus
the last of May.

Susie Nash, ex-'32, graduated this June from
the University of Virginia.

Eleanor Nolle, ex-'32, has returned from a
round-the-world cruise.

1933

Class Secretary, Mary Elizabeth Clemens, Shep-
herd Hills, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Lucy Oliver, ex-'33, was on campus for May
Day.

Kathleen Carmichael was married on June 14
to Lieutenant George Robinson Mather.

Mildred Hodges, ex-"33, stopped at Sweet Briar
on her way to join Sarah Harrison, '32, jn New
\ork City, where they remained for several weeks.

Isabelle Neer, ex-'33, has announced her en-
gagement to Mr. Robert B. Semple of St. Louis.

Glen Worthington, ex- '33. graduated this June
with Phi Beta Kappa honors from the University
of Texas.

Mary Nelson Neville, ex-'33, graduated this
June from the Un,iversity of Missouri with the
degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Deco-
rating.

Betty Attaway, ex- '33, graduated this June from
the LIniversity of Missouri with the degree of
Bachelor of Journalism.

Elizabeth Ratcliff, ex-'33, also graduated from
the University of Missouri.

Frances Nevelle, ex-'33, and Marjorie Kay, ex-
'33, will both graduate this June from the Uni-
versity of Texas.

Jane Morrison, ex-'33, was on campus several
days this spring.

Virginia Alford, ex- '33, was maiTied recently
to Mr. George Johnston and has moved to Hous-
ton, Texas.

EX-1934

Class Secretary, Connie Bui"well, Sweet Briar,
Virginia.

Angelia Morrison, who has been at home this
winter, spent the last week of May in New York
City.

Louise Greenwood and Helen Murray were on
campus for a few days the middle of April.

Hortense Hostetter has returned from California
to her home in Wichita, Kansas.

Peachie Hanna stopped over for a day's visit
on campus as she was returning from her winter
in Florida.

Mary Lee Ryan, who has been attending West-
em College this year, is planning to return to
Sweet Briar this Eall.

Carolyn Lawerence and Maiy Higgins motored
down from New Jersey and were on campus a
few days during the first week of May.

Martha Diehl has returned to her home in
Cincinnati, Ohio, after spending the Winter at
Miami Beach.

FORMS OF BEQUEST

/ give and bequeath absolutely to Sweet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ , to be invested and from time to time

re-invested by said Corporation as it shall deem best, and to

be called the Endowment Fund. The

interest and income therefrom shall be applied by said Cor-
poration to the payment of the salaries of its teachers as it
shall deem expedient.

I give and bequeath absolutely to Siveet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ -- , to be used and appropriated by said

Corporation for its benefit in such manner as it shall deem
to be most useful.

I give and bequeath absolutely to Siveet Briar Institute, a
Corporation created by the State of Virginia, and having its
College at Sweet Briar, in Amherst County, Virginia, the sum

of $ , to be invested and from time to time

re-invested by said Corporation as it shall deem best, and to

be called the : Scholarship Fund, the

interest and income to be applied by said Corporation to the
aiding of its deserving students in Sweet Briar Institute or
College.

OPICY leaves of
TURKISH tobacco
are strung to dry
and cure in the sun.

vVe//^ ma^s somemi/?^

aaou^ c/'^are//es Y /?ei^er ^i

X'd never thought much about
^vhat's inside a Chesterfield cigarette.
But I have just been reading some-
thing that made me think about it.

Just think of this, some of the
tobacco in Chesterfield — the Turk-
ish — comes from 4000 miles away!
And before it is shipped every single
leaf is packed by hand. All because
Turkish tobacco is so small and
delicate.

Of course I don't know much
about making cigarettes, but I do
know this — that Chesterfields are

y/e/i^

milder and have a very pleasing
aroma and taste. They satisfy — and
that's what counts with me!

Alumnae News

Sweet Briar College

OCTOBER 1933

The Current Issue is

The Virginia Quarterly

presents

w October . . ,

Typical

THE REVOLUTION YOU ARE LIVING THROUGH

Walter Millis, author of "The Martial Spirit," states brilliantly but simply what has
happened to America since March, in "The Roosevelt Revolution."

TWELVE SONNETS FROM THE KENTUCKY HILLS

Jesse Stuart's poems in manuscript have already won the praise of a number of dis-
tinguished poets. "Man With a Cutter Plough" is his first considerable contribution to
a national magazine.

"ROMANTICISM RUN TO SEED"

Lionel Stevenson describes the personalities of an earlier Mauve Decade — the 182.0's,
after the great romantics had died and before the Earnest Victorians had begun.

THE SOUTH AND REPEAL

W. W. Ball, Charleston editor, tells what lies back of the South's voltijace on the liquor
question, in "The 'Dry South' Dampens."

"GOLD AND OUR HONOR"

Did the United States lose its honor in repudiating the "gold clause"? Garrard Glenn,
well-known lawyer, explains for laymen the rights of the state in regulating its money.

A EUROPEAN PROPHET

In "The New Middle Ages," John Cournos describes the work of Nikolai Berdiayev, a
philosopher of history widely known in Europe, whose work will shortly be published
in America.

HOW MEXICO LIVES TODAY

"Industry in Tlaquepaque" is a brilliant description of folk-life and handicraft industry
in a Mexican village, by an American industrialist, Cyrus McCormick, grandson of
the inventor.

SAYINGS FROM THE SOUTHWEST

An authority on the subject, Mary Austin collects, with her comments the salty prov-
erbs and pungent maxims of the Indians and Spanish of the Southwest.

AN ELIZABETHAN NOVELIST

"In all English literature no writer has been more neglected than Thomas Deloney,"
writes Llewelyn Powys, and proceeds to cite chapter and verse to prove Deloney 's
greatness.

POETRY AND BOOK REVIEWS

Poetry by Josephine Pinckney and John A. Holmes, and fifty pages of book reviews by
Hervey Allen, Babetie Deutsch, James Southall Wilson, and others.

See fo

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Volume hi

OCTOBER, 1933

Number i

\tvienne Barkalow Breckenridge, 'iS, Editor

CONTENTS

President Glass's Letter

A personal message to the alumnae on per-
tinent affairs at Sweet Briar College.

The Virginia Quarterly Review ....
"Nearly ten years ago the late President
Alderman of the University of \'irginia,
and James Southall Wilson, Poe Professor
of English at the University, determined
to start a certain kind of magazine."

The Sweet Briar Alumnae Fund ....
Kathri-n Morris Kellev, 'z6, describes the
ptirpose and organization of the newest
project of the Alumnae Association.

After College What?

The General Director tells some interesting

facts concerning the American Association

of Univxrsitv Women

The Soci-^l Deterrent of Our National Self-

Righteousn'ess

Jane Addams writes interestingly of the

former attitude in contrast to the present-

dav point of view.

From the Office or the Registrar

Facts about Registration for 1933-34.

THE SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE
ASSOCIATION

Prtsident

Edna Lee Wood

(Mrs. John Clark), 'i6

60 Gramercy Park, New York City

First Vke-Prisident

Katharyn Norris Kelley

(Mrs. Stillman F. 11), '2.6

Clark Road, Babson Park

Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts

Second Vice-President

Alice Weymouth, '32.

151 Central Avenue, Flushing,

New York

Treasurer
Jeanette Boone, 'xy
Sweet Briar, Virginia

Alumnae Secretary
ViviENNE Barkalow

Breckenridge, '18
Sweet Briar, Virginia

Members of the Council

Margaret B-inister, '16

Sweet Briar, Virginia

Gertrude Dally, '2.2.

242- Noble Avenue

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Dorothy Keller, '±6

115 South Lexington Avenue

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Gertrude Prior, '2.9

Z9 Fisher Place, Trenton, New Jersey

Margaret McVey, 'iS

(Honorary Member)

1417 Grove Avenue,

Richmond, Virginia

THE ALUMNAE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL

THE CUPOLA

Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, Virginia
office of the president

September 2.8, 1935
Dear Alumnae:

The first of everything has occurred at college again, the first Chapel, the first class,
the first Sunday service, the first fit of homesickness, the first throw from a horse — not
serious — the first spoon bread ! The seniors are rather acutely aware that Alma Mater
is busv turning them into alumnae; the new freshmen seem not to suspect the fate that
awaits them, but we begin to see them fitting into life after college.

Rains were plentiful, the world at Sweet Briar was green and beautiful when we
came back. The only new building was the upper half of the Bookshop Building
which adds greatly to the looks of the campus, and furnishes attractive apartments
to Mr. and Mrs. Barker and Miss Stochholm.

There are five new faculty members: Mr. Ernest R. Zechiel in music; Mr. Cameron
King in speech and drama; Miss Lois Wilcox in art; Miss Nancy Cole in mathe-
matics, and Miss Cecile Conklin in biology.

We look forward to our new alumnae members on the Board of Overseers who are
to be appointed this year and expect much of their eagerness and ability. They can be
assured of a warm welcome. The inauguration of the Alumnae Fund, so wisely begun
at this ven,' time of keen appreciation of the use and need of money, also makes this a
memorable year in Alumnae history.

These two occurrences in 1933-34 make me inevitably review the alumnae accom-
plishments of the last seven years: a permanent campus office; a full-time secretary,
maintained by the Association itself — and this is as wise as noteworthy in the story
of the alumnae activities; a gift of $75,000 to the endowment of the college; $45,000 to
complete the fund that gave the Daisy Williams Gymnasium; increase of the Manson
Memorial Alumnae Scholarship; an alumnae quarterly that attracts favorable notice
wherever it is seen; full and up-to-date records of alumnae and alumnae activities;
recognition for vour association on national and regional bodies as evidenced by your
secretary being the regional director for District III of the American Alumni Council.

Naturally the Board knows where good Overseers are to be found, and equally
naturally you have embarked with confidence upon a sound and effective plan of
financing your own support and support for your college, because you have proved
what you can do.

As you busy yourselves with municipal, national and international matters
through your membership in other organizations that are extremely active this year,
I know you will keep one hand busied upon the interest of your own alma mater, so
largely the impetus toward your service in all the rest.

Come to college in the body if you can. Come home in the spirit often.

Faithfully yours,

Sweet Briar College

October, igj^

The Virginia Quarterly Review

J-N EARLY ten years ago the late Presi-
dent Alderman of the University of
Virginia, and James Southall Wilson, Poe
Professor of English at the University,
determined to start a certain kind of maga-
zine. It was to be a magazine of as high
quality as any the country produced. It
was to be a Southern magazine. But it was
to be what no Southern magazine since
Poe's Southern Literary Messenger could
fairly claim to be — a nationally read
journal of literature and discussion. In
April, 1915, the first issue of The Virginia
Quarterly Review was mailed out to its
subscribers.

Looking back on the Virginia Quar-
terly's first nine years of publishing, I be-
lieve I can find two major policies which
have dictated the day-to-day decisions of
its editors. They have persistently assumed
that a magazine could be distinctively
Southern without being "provincial,"
just as a college might be distinctively
Southern without being provincial, or —
to change the comparison — just as a
magazine like the London Mercury is dis-
tinctively English without being pro-
vincial.

Two groups of people would object to
such a solution of the problem — as the
editors well knew in advance. On the one
hand, there would be all those who assume
that the "American" point of view is
descended solely from the New England
culture. "Thy rocks and wooded hills,"
etc. But anybody with a rudimentary
knowledge of our national history knows
that, much as New England has con-
tributed to the mind and manners of
America, another important cultural
stream rose in a very different quarter.
And contrary to the recollection of many
Americans, it rose earlier than New En-
gland Puritanism. For the Mayflower,
while a tidy ship, did run behind schedule
■ — if it was trying to bring the founding
fathers. In 1607 a group of Englishmen
settled Virginia, a "country" which, by
the way, has lived more years under the
English flag than under the American.
Twelve years later, in 1619, the Dutch
sold these Englishmen some African slaves.

by STRINGFELLOW BARR
Editor

And who shall say that no cultural stream
entered America that year? The year after
the Negroes arrived, but with a great deal
more publicity, the Mayflower anchored
off Plymouth Rock.

In the years to come, the tradition of
1607, enriched by that of 1619, combined
to form a distinctive culture — so dis-
tinctive that it actually was to go to war
with i6io! The i6io tradition ultimately
gained the upper hand, at least temporar-
ily, in stamping the national character as
a whole. But it is bad history to forget
the flow of that other cultural stream,
both South and West, that carried the
Virginian ideal of the good life through-
out this continent. Vachel Lindsay did not
forget it when he wrote "The Virginians
Are Coming Again." American men and
women do not forget it when they send
their sons and daughters by the thousands
from the South, from the West, and from
the North, to Virginia colleges. The
editors of the Virginia Quarterly thought it

Octoh.

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Alumnae News

would be worth while to interpret the
American scene and America's contempo-
rary problems in the light of that oldest of
all American traditions. And no magazine
in America was doing it.

But in addition to the people who as-
sume that whatever forms of thought and
manners that do not trace back to the
Mayflow^er, are "provincial" and "sec-
tional," there was — for the editors — the
even more dangerous group of Southerners,
self-appointed protectors of the Southern
tradition, sacred Vestals — both male and
female — guarding the sacred flame. No
"Southern magazine" would deserve their
accolade which did not concern itself pre-
ponderantly with genealogy, the lost
cause. Southern charm, and the multiple
superiorities of God's most recently chosen
people. That, the editors were quite de-
termined the magazine would not be. The
fact that its editors were Southerners
seemed to them a sufficient guarantee that
the mood and point of view of the maga-
zine would reflect the interests and ideals
of more than three centuries' historical de-
velopment. But surely any reader. North-
ern or Southern, worth considering, would
insist that the whole world is the proper
field for discussion in such a magazine;
and that whether a writer were born in the
South, the North, the West, or in Siberia,
is less important than what he has to say
and how he says it.

Between Scylla and Charybdis, then, the
Quarterly's board has tried to steer the
ship; between the "American" who thinks
anything distinctively Southern is merely
provincial while anything that is New
England or New York is national, and the
"Southerner" who is less interested in
ideas than in proving (from a badly con-
cealed inferiority complex) his own su-
periority to other Americans. But, assum-
ing, as I do, that the editors have avoided
shipwreck on those two rocks, it still
seemed advisable to recognize that not
only Southern readers but Northern readers
as well would expect more competent, and
more genuinely critical, comment on the
Southern scene than other American maga-
zines are able to supply. And this thev
have tried to furnish.

If it will not bore the readers of this
thumb-nail history of how a magazine
was born, I should like to mention one

more ingredient the editors insisted on
throwing into the growing recipe of a
"Southern magazine." They felt that
those magazines in America which were
determined to escape the vulgarity and
cheapness of the "popular" press, had
achieved the higher vulgarity of precios-
ity, pseudo-intellectualism, — and were
boring to boot. Or they went in for being
professionally outraged, perpetually ag-
grieved, and as stridently radical as their
opponents were smugly conservative. The
Virginia Qiiarterly decided that there were a
good many intelligent men and women in
this country who would feel that a maga-
zine could be both intelligent and thor-
oughly entertaining — really good reading;
and that articles that attempted to throw
light on the confusion of modern life ought
to be explanation rather than denuncia-
tion, ought to be historical rather than
hysterical.

There remained exactly one problem,
how to find the scattered readers who
would want a first-rate magazine and who
would pay to read it. The Virginia Quar-
terly could not afford ballyhoo advertising:
it needed all the money it could get, both
from subscribers and from advertisers, to
secure the best authors, pay them what
their work deserved, and publish them in a
format of appropriate distinction. But a
good magazine, like a good book, can
count on that most honest and eff^ective of
all advertising — the word-of-mouth praise
of intelligent readers. Within a few years
of its founding. The Virginia Quarterly
Kevieiv had subscribers in every state in the
Union and in a score of foreign countries.
Book publishers began to advertise their
best offerings in its pages. It had gained
the endorsement of men of letters every-
where; of the best newspapers here and
abroad; and of discriminating readers who
were sick of the cheap, the shoddy, the
strident, as well as of the falsely erudite,
the "highbrow," the professionally radi-
cal. The thing was a going concern.

I have tried to tell what kind of maga-
zine the founders of the Virginia Quarterly
planned to publish, and I have spoken of
the acclaim it has won. But the proof
that the magazine followed the plan and
that the success was merited remains to
be given, and I imagine magazines like
trees are best known [Coutimieil on page ij

Sweet Briar College

October, ig^^

The Sweet Briar Alumnae Fund

By Kathryn Norris Kelley 'i6.
National Chairman

i HE OBJECT — "A financial channel
through -which every graduate and non-
graduate can express her loyaltv to the
college and her belief in its future. "

Margaret Banister, 'i6, president of the
Alumnae Association 1917-1915, and again
from 19x6-1930, says: "The plan of an
Alumnae Fund is simple. It is based upon
the idea of individual alumnae giving ac-
cording to their abilitv to give instead of
paying a set membership fee to the asso-
ciation. Once a year each alumna is asked
to make a contribution in whatever
amount seems possible under the require-
ments of her own budget, and in return
the association guarantees that it will
make no further financial demands upon
her. Out of the sums thus contributed,
plus the funds sent in bv alumnae clubs as
the result of their own activities, the
association pays its own running expenses,
and everything over and above these
necessary maintenance expenses is turned
over to the college as vearlv income. A
successfully operated alumnae fund will
create for a college a substantial source of
income of inestimable value, not only be-
cause of the money involved, but because
it constitutes a pledge of the continued
interest and support of its alumnae. The
alumnae fund plan has been adopted by
practically all self-supporting and well-
established alumni associations desirous of
making real and definite contributions to
the welfare and development of their

colleges. In adopting this efficient financial
plan, as opposed to the present haphazard
and inadequate membership fee plan, the
Sweet Briar Alumnae Association, which
has long been self-supporting, will take
another for^vard step and constitute it-
self one of the college's most important
assets."

Organization of the Fund

There shall be an Alumnae Fund Com-
mittee composed of:

a. A national chairman.

b. A divisional chairman for each of
the five areas and one committee
member selected bv the divisional
chairman from the members of her
committee.

c. The executive secretary and treas-
urer of the Alumnae Association.

d. The president of the Alumnae As-
sociation, ex-officio.

II. The Fund Committee shall work
through five geographical areas; namely.
Area i, the New England States; Area 2.,
the Middle Atlantic States; Area 3, the
Southern States; Area 4, the Mid-\\'estern
States; and Area 5, the South West and
Western States.

a. There shall be no quotas.

b. There shall be no club solicitation.

III. The purpose of each annual gift
shall be determined by the Fund Com-
mittee in consultation with the Board of
Overseers and the Alumnae Council and
shall be announced in the annual appeal.

TO THE SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE FUND, Sweet Briar, Virginia
As my contribution to The Alumnae Fund for 1933-34:

I I I enclose check for the amount I have indicated

I I I will give amount indicated on or before May i, 1934

Name Class

Address

Contributions to the Sweet Briar Alumnae Fund constitute a proper

deduction under the U. S. Income Tax Law.

Make Checks Payable to The Sweet Briar Alumnae Fund

Please tear this out and return promptly to the Alumnae Office,

S\veet Briar, \^irginia

S500.00

SIOO.OO

$ 50.00

S 25.00

S 10.00

$ 5.00

S 2.00

October, /95J

Aldmnae Ne'ws

IV. Subscriptions shall be payable to
the Alumnae Association of Sweet Briar
College.

a. Annual pavment to the Alumnae
Association shall be considered to
include dues, magazine subscrip-
tion, and gift to the fund.

b. The voting membership of the
Alumnae Association comprises
the contributors to the fund.

V. The list of donors shall be pub-
lished annuallv, but the amount of in-
dividual gifts shall not be stated.

\T. The Fund Committee shall in no
way interfere with the work of the Clubs
or the Clubs with the work of the Fund
Committee.

\TI. Life Memberships shall not be
issued.

\TIL The present Life Members shall
be considered annual contributors because

of the interest the association receives from
their life membership fees, but annual
contributions may also be accepted from

them.

* * *

Last June when this plan was initiated
eight alumnae immediately came forward
with contributions to be among the first
to show their approval. The list is as
follows: Martha Newton Grover, '13,
Mar}' Del McCaw, 'i.^, Louisa Newkirk
Steeble, '13, Wanda Jensch Harris, 'x6,
Edna Lee Wood, 'r6, Kathryn Norris
Kellev, 'z6, Katherine Blount, 'i6, and
Vivienne Barkalow Breckenridge, 'iS.

* * *

It is hoped that the subscription blank
on page 6 will be returned at once to
make a grand start toward 100% contribu-
tion in the initial vear of the Fund Plan.

After College What?

Bv Kathryn McHale

Genera! Director, American Association

of University Women

L HIS is a quen' common in the experience
of all college women. Membership in
the American Association of Universitv
Women offers one answer. It gives college
women a medium through which to carrv
on their social-cultural interests in out-of-
school life.

Devoting itself to the aims of uniting
alumnae of different institutions for prac-
tical work in the maintenance of high
cultural standards in the community,
state, and nation, the Association since
1S82. has developed from a group of 6<i
women to an organization of approxi-
mately 40,000 women. It is represented in
612. communities in the United States and
in 37 countries of the world in its affiliation
with the International Federation of Uni-
versity' Women. Its national headquarters
is in 1634 I Street, N.W., Washington, a
building which was formerlv the Russian
Embassy. The headquarters of the Inter-
national Federation of Universitv Women

is in Crosbv Hall, London, the former
home of Sir Thomas Moore. The hospital-
itv of these two beautiful buildings, Reid
Hall in Pans, and the club-houses through-
out the United States and Europe is ex-
tended to members who are traveling.

Membership is restricted to the gradu-
ates of 2.47 of the 650 institutions of higher
learning open to women. These institu-
tions have approved academic standards
and observe the principle of equitv in the
recognition of women. Through its stand-
ardization work, the influence of the
Association on behalf of high standards in
the collegiate education of women has been
felt for more than fiftv years.

The Association will welcome to mem-
bership the graduates of this institution
which is one of the 147 approved. Member-
ship can be general or branch.

Members of the Association have been
disciplined in the field of organized and
formal learning and it is expected that they
will continue learning, will continue to
seek ne\v knowledge that 'will bring to
them further understanding of themselves,
their families, and the {Continuec! on page }2

Sweet Briar College

October, ig}}

Editorial Comment

College Needs as Gleaned
from the President's
Office

Ihe article entitled "The Sweet Briar
Alumnae Fund" has given to you a clear
explanation of w^hat an "Alumnea Fund"
is and how it works. One important
thing remains for you to realize and that is
the value of an Alumnae Fund to a College.
This value is two-fold; on your side it will
give you an excellent opportunity to show
loyalty to and appreciation of your college,
and on the side of the college, it will bring
security and the advantages of advanced
planning to all alumnae activities and will
enable the administration, so far as support
from the fund comes into the college in-
come, to plan urgent improvements with-
out the uncertainty of waiting to realize
on college fees. There may be those
alumnae who feel that having paid their
tuition fees while in college they have
liquidated all obligations to the college;
but the amount paid by each student repre-
sents only a portion of the whole cost of
her education; the balance is borne by the
interest from the Endowment Fund. Pre-
viously you received a bill for two dollars,
now you will find a subscription blank on
page 6 of this magazine, which it is hoped
you will fill out with an amount according
to your ability and willingness to further
the cause of Sweet Briar. Bear in mind
that you pledge nothing. What you give
this year is not indicative of what vou
may give next year. You might now find
it possible to give ten dollars, whereas
next year you might wish to increase the
amount to a hundred or a thousand, or you
might wish to decrease it. We fully ap-
preciate the fact that the two dollar con-
tribution means as much to some donors as
a larger contribution would to others.

The needs of the college are ever in-
creasing. A partial list as gleaned from the

president's office follows. The demand for
scholarships, so large a drain on the col-
lege income at present, is great. Sabbatical
leave available now only to full professors,
should be extended to associate and assis-
tant professors. The younger members of
the faculty have urgent need for additional
study. The program in the Arts, made
possible by the Carnegie Corporation grant
for this year and next must after that be
taken over by the college. The library no
longer has the grant from the Carnegie
Corporation and is now dependent on the
college budget for books. You see there are
many avenues for you to choose in -which
support to your college will be most
valuable.

For these, and many more reasons, I ask
you to reflect in the quietness of vour heart
what Sweet Briar has meant to vou per-
sonally. What would your present philos-
ophy be without the background of your
experience here? After this reflection if you
can honestly feel that vou owe her future
nothing it is not for me to contradict you.

The above subject is uppermost in our
minds now, but we wish to add here three
further matters for our readers.

Once more we are back home in the
Alumnae Cabin and the latchstring is al-
ways out.

We urge vou to give The Virginia
Qjmrterly Review your support, for we
know you will be convinced of its worthy
purpose and high merits when you have
read Mr. Barr's article in this issue.

When a letter from the Alumnae Office
is forwarded to you please be sure to let
us know, for the fact that it had to be for-
warded is notice to you that we have an in-
correct address for you. A card telling us
of the new address will save us effort and
expense and will insure your mail reaching
you at the earliest possible date.

October, ig}^

Alumnae News

The Social Deterrent of Our National
Self- Righteousness

By Jane Addams

JuR national self-righteousness, often
honestly disguised as patriotism, in one
aspect is part of that adolescent self-
assertion which the United States has
never quite outgrow^n, and which is some-
times crudely expressed, both by in-
dividuals and nations, in sheer boasting.
In another aspect it is that complacency
which we associate with the elderly who,
feeling justified bv their own successes,
have completely lost the faculty of self-
criticism. Innocent as such a combination
may be, it is unfortunate that it should
have been intensified at this particular
moment when humility of spirit and a
willingness to reconsider existing institu-
tions are so necessary to world salvation.
To illustrate — Senator Borah suggested
that the cancellation of war debts owed by
the allied European nations to the United
States be considered with the provision
that the nations which take advantage of
the offer shall consent to reduce their
armaments. And yet the United States
makes no proposition to disarm itself!
This is doubtless due to the fact that we
are fully convinced of our own righteous-
ness, of our own beneficent intentions; but
this very attitude toward ourselves may
make the offer unacceptable to other
nations.

It is not difficult to trace the historic
beginning of such a national self-righteous-
ness. The persecuted religious sects which
first settled so much of the Atlantic Coast
were naturally convinced that they bore
witness to the highest truth and were
therefore the chosen people. William Penn,
who bought from the Indians every acre
of land in his own royal grant, said that he
visited the various communities "who
were of a separating and seeking turn of
mind," and in spite of his insistence upon

(Editor's Note: This article is anotlier of a series ot
articles on "Continued Education for Alumnae."
Several of the series appeared last year in the
Alumnae News.)

religious freedom, he was ever surrounded
by a good many "come-outers." These
very separatists, from Plymouth to Phila-
delphia, who ultimately federated into the
Thirteen Colonies, probably achieved it
as much through a similarity of tempera-
ment as through a common devotion to
political doctrines. They undoubtedly be-
queathed both to their successors, and
certainly the former made a very good
foundation for this national trait.

Another historic manifestation of the
spirit of superiority so easily turned into
self-righteousness, is discovered as early
as 1830 in a national attitude toward the
European immigrants who came over in
ever increasing numbers until by 1913 the
annual arrivals were over a million. A
consciousness of superiority constantly
tended to exalt the earlier Americans and
to put the immigrants into a class by them-
selves, until it became an obvious deterrent
and was responsible for several social mal-
adjustments.

First, for our tardiness in passing pro-
tective legislation. Since every approach
to labor problems in the United States had
to do with immigrants because they form
the bulk of the wage-earning population,
it eventually came to be considered
patriotic to oppose governmental measures
for workmen's compensation, for unem-
ployment insurance, and for old-age
security. Over-crowded tenements, sweat-
ing systems, a high infant death-rate, and
many another familiar aspect of unregu-
lated industry also became associated
in the public mind with the immigrant.
Unlike the impassioned study of poverty
made in England during the 'So's, resulting
in the belief that a representative govern-
ment was performing its legitimate func-
tion when it considered such matters, we
in the United States in the very same
decade, found an alibi for all of our dis-
turbing industrial problems and put them
off on the immigrant.

William Penn affords an antithesis of
all this, and presents a direct method of

Sweet Briar College

October, ig^j

avoiding the difficulties of self-righteous-
ness in his relations with the aliens w^ho
confronted him — the North American
Indians, for more than a century regarded
by the New England colonies as untamed
savages. His i86i treaty with them, im-
pressively consummated by two self-
respecting political entities, was made as
between equals and was mutually binding.
Moreover, he assured the non-English
settlers in his colony — the Dutch, the
Swedes, and the Germans, that "you shall
be governed by laws of your own making,
and live a free and if you will, sober and
industrious people," and each group at
once received the franchise. The laborers,
who represented many European nationali-
ties, were to be provided for at the expira-
tion of their terms of service. The despised
negro was to be free after fourteen years,
and furnished land, tools, and stock. Wil-
liam Penn manumitted his own slaves in
1701. Such was his confidence in his fellow-
man that he gave to his conglomerate
colony the first constitution in the world
which provided for its own amendment.

Our national self-righteousness might
be indicted for another policy towards
labor — the widespread belief that differing
opinions may be controlled by force.
European immigrants have been held
responsible for strikes and other industrial
disorders, since it was assumed that they
held all sorts of beliefs contrary to basic
American doctrines. Therefore to scatter
strikers by the police and even by the
militia and the regulars came to be con-
sidered a patriotic duty. Yet William Penn
reached the conclusion when he was im-
prisoned in the Tower as a young man that
real protection lay in mutual understand-
ing and confidence; "that love and per-
suasion have more force than weapons of
war. ' ' He stood for this conviction when in
the vast wilderness stretching around him
groups of white settlers were being at-
tacked and sometimes massacred by the
Indians.

A third result of our national attitude
toward the immigrant is that we have be-
come indifferent to the protection of
human life. Unfortunately the earliest
outbreaks of gang violence in Chicago —
more or less typical of those throughout
the country — were associated with
colonies of immigrants. Although we all

knew that the bootleggers and other
racketeers could not have continued with-
out political protection, the community
was slow to act, because so long as the
Sicilians, who composed the first powerful
bootlegging gang, killed only one another,
it was considered of little consequence.
From January 192.8 to January 1932- we had
in Chicago 131 gang killings, in which the
law-enforcing agencies failed to bring
even one to trial. Such preferential treat-
ment of crime — an obvious symptom of a
breakdown in Democratic government —
may be an indirect result of an unjustifiable
habit of considering one human being of
less consequence than another. Never was
William Penn's ideal of religion, founded
upon fraternity and righteousness, so
sorely needed.

This leads quite naturally to the fourth
indictment arising out of our attitude
toward the immigrant — our dilemma in
regard to prohibition. Because the Simon-
pure American did make an exception of
himself, he often voted for laws which he
would like to see enforced upon others
without any intention of keeping them
himself. Many Southern men voted for the
Eighteenth Amendment because they
wanted to keep drink away from the negro;
other Northern men, because they needed
sober immigrant labor. William Penn set
an example even here. He did not sell
liquor to the Indians because of the terms
of an agreement which they had voluntarily
entered into with him. In one more in-
stance he had achieved his purpose by the
moral cooperation of those he was trying
to serve, and of course there is no other
way.

Another aspect of our national self-
righteousness, much more sinister in its
influence, is the demand for conformity on
pain of being denounced as a "red" or a
"traitor." Perhaps never before in our
history has there been within the frame-
work of orderly government such im-
patience with differing opinion. Such a
stultifying situation is more than ever
dangerous just now when the nation needs
all the free and vigorous thinking which is
available. To illustrate the danger of
holding fast to a social concept which is
no longer useful, but which has not yet
been superseded by the new, because the
new one is considered dangerous. Dr.

October, ip^^

Alumnae News

Nicholas Murray Butler said within recent
weeks to the students of Columbia Uni-
versity, "We are living in the backwash of
ultra nationalism following the Great
War, ignoring the fundamental and con-
trolling fact that the world today is an
international world." He also quoted the
concluding words of a report signed by
leading members of the Finance Committee
of the League of Nations : "It may be truly
said that international trade is gradually
being strangled to death. If the process
continues, millions of people in this
economically interlocked world must in-
evitably die of starvation." Would it not
be humiliating for a world to starve in the
midst of a plethora of food because the
constructive and collective intelligence of
mankind was unable to make a distinction
between political nationalism and eco-
nomic internationalism, and serenely
sacrificed the later to the first!

The corrective supplied by William
Penn on this point is very clear. Nothing
could have been more difficult in his day
and generation than his long advocacy
of religious freedom — that each man must
worship God in his own way. Religion,
it is only fair to remember, was the ab-
sorbing interest of the 17th century.
Dynasties rose and fell upon theological
issues, and great families disappeared
when they found themselves on the side of
the oppressed instead of the oppressor.
Willian Penn took his stand for the free-
dom of worship for all sects, for the Roman
Catholics, no less than for the Quakers.
With invincible courage he put the truth
as God gave him to see the truth to the
test of action, in the new world among
alien Indians, as well as in the old.

One could make a long list of William
Penn's advances beyond his contempo-
raries. In education, he was expelled from
Oxford, because the Universities saw that
the inspirational preacher might interfere
with the stiff scholasticism which pro-
duced their dull and learned clergy. Re-
garding the education of children he ex-
pressed ideas which might easily be
ascribed to John Dewey or Bertrand
Russell. In international affairs we have
hardly caught up to him yet. A hundred
years before the thirteen colonies were
federated, for example, he had worked out
a plan for a "Dyet or Parliament of Europe

to settle trouble between nations without
war." William Penn appealed from tradi-
tion to experience; from intrenched
authority to life, and in his absorbed de-
votion to his colony, calmly followed his
own rule, "Though there is a regard due
to education and the tradition of our
fathers, Truth will ever deserve, as well
as claim, the preference." In this spirit he
supressed the hunting of witches, declared
the spiritual equality of men and women,
reduced from two hundred to two the
number of ofl^ences punishable by death,
declared that all prisons would be work-
shops, and literally taxed slavery out of
existence. Such right thinking and
courageous acting is doubtless what we
need at this moment more than anything
else. Sir Arthur Salter, in a recent number
of Foreign Affairs, believes that the choice
before the world today is between trying
to build up world trade, based on world
order, or moving further toward a system
of closed units, each aiming to be self-
sufficient. The choice of the United States
in this world decision has come to have an
undue influence, and yet we all know that
there exists an overwhelming danger that
America may leave unaided and thus
unwantonly cripple the supreme political
efl^ort of these later centuries — the effort
to make international relations more
rational and human. Several years ago at
Williamstown, Arnold Toynbee boldly
warned us against what he described as a
rather low type of religion — the worship
of some sixty or seventy gods called
Sovereign National States, declaring that
such idolatry of nationalism was not
patriotism but suicide.

I find it a great temptation to conclude
with an exhortation to those who repre-
sent a seat of learning; certainly the
scholar, who is always impatient of in-
tellectual apathy and incapacity, may find
a formula which shall preserve "that spirit
of nationality in which for many years the
aspirations of man for liberty and free
development have found their expression,
and yet prevent the abuse of that national-
ity which now threatens with destruction
all that it has given or promised." Is it
not true that the contemporary world,
based upon the search for private profit
and for national advantage, has come in
conflict with the newer [Conrimm! on p,igc ;i

Sweet Briar College

October, ig^^

From the Office of the Registrar

rj-ow is registration? Is the college full?
Is there a good freshman class? Are
there many changes this year? Has a
dormitory been closed? Where are the new
girls from? How many old girls are back?
Such are the questions many visiting
alumnae are asking. The same questions
may be unspoken by numbers to whom
the Alumnae News is a source of current
information about Sweet Briar.

Sweet Briar has opened the session with
403 students, welcoming 146 new students
to the campus this year. Although this
means a decreased enrollment compared
with recent years, it marks an increase over
our estimate of last spring when it seemed
probable that a dormitory might be closed.
Alumnae reaching the campus during the
night hours in these recent weeks have,
many of them, sighed with pleasure,
therefore, to see light gleaming from the
windows of all dormitories. This enroll-
ment is the result of a marked increase in
new applications during the summer and
of the happy sustaining of the number of
old students returning during that time.
During the warm days of late July and
August the admissions office was more
busy than in any summer within its
memory, applications rising from 1S6 in
late May to a total of 2.74. Although a
number of old students withdrew there
were others who found it possible to re-
register, so that 2.57 old students have re-
turned, a number equal to the average
number of old students returning for the
past three years.

The new students, what are they like?
They have come to us from twenty-seven
states, from Cuba, the Canal Zone and
Italy, continuing Sweet Briar's wide
geographical representation. A larger pro-
portion come from the South than in the
last few years, forty-five per cent; and the
state sending the largest number is Vir-
ginia, from -which twentv-three ne^v stu-
dents enter. Fourteen students come from
other colleges and universities, four seek-
ing junior standing and some willing to
enter as freshmen. The new students are
really a selected group, as for each four

students admitted more than one applicant
was refused. On a comparable psycho-
logical test the new students made an aver-
age score fourteen points higher than last
year's entering group. All of this leads us
to ■welcome our new students -with pride
and ^vith the expectation of good things
from them.

Many of our most promising freshmen
have come through the excellent work of
alumnae who have aroused their interest
in Sweet Briar. Some have come because of
the unconscious influence of alumnae
friends; and some have followed paths al-
ready made by alumna sisters and relatives.
Among the latter are the following sisters:
Jaquelin Cochran, sister of Courtney
Cochran, 1931; Beda F. Carlson, sister of
Mary Lynn Carlson, 193 1; Kitty O'Brien,
sister of Martha O'Brien, ex 1932.; Mary G.
Petty, sister of Margaret J. Petty, cx-i<^xj;
and Helen Worthington, sister of Nancy
Worthington, 1931, and daughter of Pro-
fessor Hugh Worthington. Among the
cousins are: Mary Louise Agnew, cousin
of Florence Moss, ex-i9i8; Barbara Kirch,
cousin of Florence Shortau, 192.7; Elizabeth
Lee, cousin of Martha Lee, 192.5; and Mary
Turnbull, cousin of Mary Wilson, 19x4.

This year nineteen applicants took Col-
lege Board examinations as competitors
for the freshman scholarships. Four full
scholarships, each of which carries a
stipend of $400.00, were awarded, — to
Mary Helen FreaufF from St. Agatha
School, New York City; to Lucy Gore, The
High School, White Plains, New York; to
Barbara Lee Jarvis, The High School,
Westfield, New Jersey; and to Margaret
Elliott Lewis, St. Anne's School, Char-
lottesville, Virginia. Six other competitors
who needed financial assistance made
records which were promising and were
awarded from the student emergency fund.

Among the old students returning are
four seniors who studied abroad last year,
one in Germany and three at St. Andrews
in Scotland. Among our returning students
we have not counted the four juniors who
represent Sweet Briar abroad this year, one
at St. Andrews and three in Paris under
the direction of the University of Delaware.

October, i()^j

Alumnae News

Carnnng out our new plan of giving pre-
liminary consideration to applicants before
they enter upon their final year of prepara-
tion. President Glass, Dr. Hudson and
Mrs. Lill reviewed in July a considerable
number of credentials presented by 1934
applicants. An immediate result was that
some candidates were advised to enter this
year rather than to defer their entrance,
two of whom accepted the advice and

are now members of the freshman class.
The reviewing of these credentials brought
nearer reality some of the hopes which the
faculty held last vear in approving this
new plan. In sending to these preliminary
applicants word of provisional acceptance,
advice about their plans for their final
year in secondary school, or words of
stimulation to greater effort we felt that
we v^^ere indeed making more smooth the
transition from secondary school to college.

Campus News

Numerous changes and improvements
have been made on campus during the
summer. The most noticeable is the com-
pletion of the Bookshop by the addition
of a storv and a half to the original build-
ing. Its blue slate roof, its dormer windows
and its attractive chimnevs blend with and
add to that part of campus.

Old worn out balustrades on the roof
of the arcade between Gray and the
Refectorv have been replaced bv new ones.
The exteriors of Gram met and the In-
firmary", JNIr. Dew's house and the Music
Building have been painted, and the
floors in the auxiliarv rooms of the gvm-
nasium have been refixiished.

The overhead wiring behind Reid has
been replaced by modern underground
wires and a transformer vault has been
built under the Music Building. Electric

wiring and steam lines in the kitchen of
the Inn have been changed and the interior
remodeled to supply better facilities for
increased business.

The six solid walnut tables in the Junior
Honor Study Room were made in the Col-
lege Carpenter Shop from walnut trees
grown on Sweet Briar property.

It has been recently announced that Dr.
Eugenie M. Morenus, head of the mathe-
matics department, has been honored in
being elected a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science.

Section 4 of the by-laws of the societv
defines Fellowship in the following man-
ner: "'All members who are professionallv
engaged in scientific work or who have
advanced science by research, may be
elected bv the Council to be fellows on

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nomination or on their own application.
This qualification is understood to have
been met by members of affiliated societies
having a research qualification."

Emily Braswell '2.8 has sent to Dean
Dutton a much appreciated gift for the
collection of antiquities which the Class-
ical Club is making, and which is on
exhibit in the art room of the Mary Helen
Cochrane Library.

She sent an Egyptian terra cotta lamp
from the Temple of Ammon at Karnak,
Egypt, which is said to belong to the
period of Setil, ruler preceding the great
Rameses II.

In addition. Miss Braswell has given
two very beautiful vases from Ephesus.

Miss Mary Dix was married on July
5 to Mr. Ross V. Martindale. Thev are
living in an apartment that has been made
for them consisting of the Senior Study and
the large room adjoining it.

The Senior Study has been moved to the
suite across the hall from where it was
formerly located.

The Class presidents are as follows;
Marcia Morrison, of Indianapolis, senior;
Elizabeth Johnston, of Scarsdale, junior;
and Jacqueline Moore, of Richmond,
sophomore. The Freshman president will
be elected immediately following the six
weeks examinations.

Fergus Reid dining room has been closed
and all students are now having their
meals in the main refectory.

The fall meeting of the Council of the
Sweet Briar Alumnae Association will be
held in The Cabin on Thursday night,
October 16, at eight o'clock.

The Alumnae Association wishes
to express to Mr. Blackwell and his
family their sincerest sympathy in the
death of Mrs. Blackwell which oc-
curred the early part of July.

Concerts and Lectures

On September 2.9 the Boston Sinfonietta,
consisting of seventeen men from the
Boston Symphony Orchestra led by
Arthur Fiedler, assistant conductor of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, gave a con-
cert at the college. This organization will
be remembered as having given the first
concert for the season last year and the
choice of the committee to start the season
this year with this same group was an
excellent one.

Mr. S. K. Ratcliffe gave a lecture on
October 13. Mr. Ratcliffe has been de-
scribed as one of the most distinguished of
English journalists. In the course of his
thirty years' journalistic career he has
been associated with several of the most
important dailies and weeklies in England;
and has done editorial and special writing
for many others — such as the London
Daily News, the Nation, and the Observer.
He is at present a member of the editorial
staff of the New Statesman, which shares

with the Spectator the first place among
the high class English journals of opinion.
He was editor for five years of the States-
man, Calcutta, one of the most powerful
daily newspapers in India; and in that
capacity he came into contact with the
chief makers of Indian Nationalism. In
speaking upon "Hitler and the New Ger-
many," Mr. Ratcliffe gave a sketch
of Germany as he saw it the summer of
1 93 3 , at the end of the first half of the Nazi
Government. He dealt with the per-
sonality of Adolf Hitler and his rise to
supreme power, his political program, his
racial and social doctrines.

On November 10 Mme. Jeanne Soudei-
kine, American Dramatic Soprano, will
give a concert at the college.

A faculty play will be given Thanks-
giving night under the direction of Mr.
King.

Mr. Stuart Chase, the well known econ-
omist, will lecture on December 8.

October, ig}^

Alumnae News

New Members of the Faculty

Mr. Ernest R. Zechiel comes from the
Curtis School of Music in Philadelphia to
succeed Mr. Martin, who has resigned and
gone to California. Mr. Zechiel w^as
graduated from Oberlin College with Phi
Beta Kappa honors, has studied in London
under Moiseiwitsch and at the Royal Col-
lege of Music; he has taught music at the
Iowa State Teachers College, at Cornell
College, and at the Riverdale School of
Music in New York City before he was
called to the Curtis School of Music. He
will teach piano, advanced theory, and
organ.

Miss Lois Wilcox, of New York City,
has been added to the Department of Fine
Arts. Miss Wilcox is a graduate of the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston; she has studied at the Art Students'
League in New York, at L'Ecole Mont-
parnasse in Paris; has specialized in
techniques of mural painting at the Scuola
di Arti Ornamental! in Rome; and has
studied fresco with Galemberti in Rome.
Miss Wilcox has worked as assistant to the
Mexican fresco painter, Orozco; and she
has exhibited landscapes in the National
Academy in New York. Recently Miss
Wilcox has been doing lithographs, and
her prints have been exhibited in many
museums and art associations throughout
the country. Miss Wilcox will teach Art
i-r, and plans to give the course with
studio practice, and students without
special facility in artistic expression — as
well as those with it — will be encouraged
to do this kind of "laboratory" work for
the enlightenment it gives.

Mr. Cameron King has been added to the
English staff this year. He is a graduate of
the University of Idaho and of the Yale
School of Drama, has taught at the
University of Idaho, directed the Little
Theatre of Fort Worth, Texas, for two
years, and has been acting with the
Theatre Guild of New York for the past
winter and conducting his own company
for the summer. He will offer the following
courses at Sweet Briar this year :

English iii-iii Fundamsntals of Speech —
A study of the use of the speech organs, of

breathing, tone-production, phonetics and
diction, supplemented by practice in read-
ing and oral interpretation.

English 187-188 History of Drama — A sur-
vey of the development of drama as a re-
flection of society together with the
physical aspects of the theatre and the art
of acting. The course will endeavor to
indicate the way in which social, literary,
and artistic trends found expression in
different periods. Some of the periods
chronologically considered will be the
Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance,
Elizabethan, Japanese No and Kabuki,
English Restoration, French Classic, Eight-
eenth Century, Romantic and Modern.
The course will be supplemented by class
demonstrations in period acting.

Mr. King will also coach the plays
given during the year.

Miss Harpster will not be at Sweet
Briar for 1933-34, ^"d Miss Cecile Conklin,
who has previously taught here, will take
her place in Biology. This w^ill entail no
course changes. Miss Conklin holds her
B.S. degree from the New York State
College for Teachers, and her A.M. de-
gree from the University of Michigan, and
has recently taught at Goucher College in
Baltimore.

Miss Nancy Cole of Plymouth, Massa-
chusetts, comes to Sweet Briar this year as
an Instructor in Mathematics, succeeding
Miss Moody. Miss Cole is an A.B. of
Vassar College, holds her Master's degree
from Radcliffe and has done additional
work there toward her Ph.D. degree. She
has taught at the Oxford School at Hart-
ford, Connecticut; at Vassar, and has
tutored at Radcliffe.

Sweet Briar College welcomes new
presidents to three of its neighboring in-
stitutions; Dr. Theodore Jack to Randolph
Macon Women's College, Dr. Bessie Carter
Randolph to Hollins College, and Dr.
John Lloyd Newcomb to the University of
Virginia.

Sweet Briar College

October, ig^}

Of Books No End

X. HE following is a selected list of recent titles on World Affairs. The quarterly maga-
zine "Foreign Affairs" has a department entitled "Some Recent Books on International
Relations" w^hich currently lists, with useful comments, a much larger number of books
in this field.

Alcala-Galiano, Aluaro,
Anonymous,

Armstrong, Hamilton Fish,
Beer, Max,
Bcrdahl, C. A.,
Bratt, K. A.,

Eddy, G. Sherwood,
Haring, C. H.

Harvy, Edwin D.,

Hindus, Maurice,

Hoover, Calvin B.,
Hutchinson, Paul,

Kavyakami, K. K.

Kohn, Hans,

Lengyl, E.,
Lippmann, Walter,

Lobanov-Rostovsky, Prince A.

Morse, H. B., and
MacNair, H. F.,

Moulton, H. G., and

Pasvolsky, L.,
Reid, Leonard J.,

Roucek, Joseph S.,
Schmidt, Richard, and

Grabowsky, Adolph, editors

Schoonmaker, Edwin D.,

, Schuman, F. L.,

Seibert, Theodore,

The Fall of a Thotu. Butterworth, 1933

A monarchist account of the revolution in Spain.
Not to Be Repeated. Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, 1931

A Who's Who and Why, covering the 150 political Europeans who are most

worth watching. Gossipy, misleading in places, but along with the sauce,

there is strong meat.
Hitler's Reich. Macmillan, 1933

Facts and evaluations by the editor of "Foreign Affairs."
The League on Trial. A Journey to Geneva. Houghton, Mifflin, 1933

Impressionistic and amusing; not serious nor reliable.
The Policy of the United States with Respect to the League of Nations. Librairie

Kundig, 1932.
That Next War? Harcourt, Brace, 1931

Read, discussed and quarreled about from end to end of Sweden. Written by a

Swedish officer with a trained imagination.
The Challenge of Europe. Farrar and Rinehart, 1933

Intelligent observations from a much-challenged writer.
South Anierica Looks at the United States. Macmillan, 192.8

Now five years old, but presenting interesting facets of our Latin-American

relations.
The Mind of China. Yale University Press, 1933

Important sociological aids to understanding, presented by a competent

authority.
The Great Offensive. GoUancz, 1933

Russia at the beginning of the Five- Year Plan.
Germany Enters the Third Reich. Macmillan, 1933
Storm over Asia. Holt, i93z

Affords glimpses which more humdrum books seldom suggest.
Manchouh/o, Child of Conflict. Macmillan, 1933

Welcome, if recognized as pro-Japanese.
Nationalism and Imperialism in the Hither East. Harcourt, Brace, 1932.

Comprehensive, detailed, accurate; shows rare penetration and impartiality.
Hitler. Rutledge, 1933
The United States in World Affairs in ig}2. Harper, 1933

Meets in admirable fashion the need for a general survey of internation

affairs.
Russia and Asia. Macmillan, 1953

Enough original and suggestive interpretation to repay almost anyone for

reading the book.
Far Eastern International Relations. Houghton, Mifflin, 1931

An unrivalled review of the history of the relations of far eastern nations

with each other and with the west.

War Debts and World Prosperity. Century, 1932.

Britain and the War Debts. Jenkins, 1933

A temperate survey from the British point of view.

Contemporary Rumania. Stanford University Press, 1932.

The Problem of Disarmament. Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1933
This collection of twenty papers by Germans of highest standing and com-
petence presents the moderate and intelligent German point of view.
, Our Genial Enemy: France. Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, 1932..

Interesting reading and not wholly inaccurate, though unfortunately not at
all objective.

International Politics. An Introduction to the Western State System. McGraw Hill,

^533

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er, ig^}

Alumnae News

The Virginia Quarterly Review

Continued from fage ;] by the fruits they bear.
Certainly, the easiest description of
the Qiiarterly is to recall some of the things
it has printed. Well, it has published so-
called "timely" articles that didn't get
stale the next year. As early as 1930 Dr.
Henry Pratt Fairchild had stated in clear
terms — in "Machines Don't Buy Goods,"
■ — the basic principles on which economic
recovery could take place, and they read
now like an explanation of NIRA! But
long before that — in 19^6 — J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton had contributed to the
Qiiarterly an article called "These Things
Doth the Lord Hate," which greatly an-
noyed the still strong prohibitionists. Yet,
to show that the Quarterly was an open
forum, it w^as followed by a reasonably
stated defense of prohibition by a writer
who believed in it! There were authorita-
tive articles on political themes, such as
Newton D. Baker's, on "The Constitu-
tion and Foreign Relations. ' ' By igiS there
was a complete statement — in Joseph S.
Davis's "The War Debt Settlements" —
of w^hy \NC couldn't collect all the money
we still hoped we could!

There were critical articles dealing
particularly with the problems of the
South — such as "Why Cheap Labor Down
South?" by Broadus Mitchell; and "South-
ern Image-Breakers," by Gerald Johnson.
There were literary essays of beauty and
power — "Charlotte Bronte and her Sis-
ters," by Julien Green; and "The Cruelty
and Beauty of Words," by Sean O'Faolain.
There were articles dealing with the arts —
by Stark Young, on the theater; by Walter
Pach, on painting; by Daniel Gregory
Mason, on music; by Sherwood Anderson,
on "J. J. Lankes and His Woodcuts."
There were articles on the position and
role of women in American life. There
were biographical and historical essays of
literary distinction. There were poems by
writers like Robert Frost and Carl Sand-
burg, and others by poets — then begin-
ners — like Geoffrey Johnson and Lawrence
Lee. There were short stories, which like
the Quarterly's poems immediately found
their way into the best known anthologies
— "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," by Conrad
Aiken; "Elephants Through the Coun-
try," by Mary Johnston; "The Picnic," by

Walter de la Mare. There were "literary
finds" like unpublished letters of de
Maupassant and of Dostoevsky. And there
were, in every issue, competent discussions
of the best new books. In short, the
Virginia Quarterly for nine years has sup-
plied a varied literary feast for its readers.

And it is the sort of feast that appar-
ently appeals to the nineteen-thirties
even more than to the nineteen-twenties.
You know the signs: a general deflation of
ballyhoo; "codes" to regulate unscrupu-
lous business; a lower social assessment of
our Get-Rich-Quick Wallingfords; a
stricter selection of students in our col-
leges — more maturity, in short, and a
little less fever and cheapness. That will
mean a wider field of operation for maga-
zines like the Virginia Quarterly. Intelli-
gent men and women who are Southerners,
or who have Southern interests or affilia-
tions, will watch attentively the growth
and development during the coming years,
of "a national magazine published in the
South," something that stands for the
highest intellectual aspirations of Vir-
ginia — and of thoughtful men and women
throughout this country and abroad.

Have I made it clear what sort of maga-
zine people take, who read The Virginia
Quarterly Revieiv?

FROM THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT
The hockey season has gotten off to an
excellent start and much is expected, this
fall, of all of the teams. The first varsity
team has lost only one player from last
year, a senior. The schedule for the Hockey
Games is as follows; November 4 at Sweet
Briar, Harrison State Teachers College.
On November 10 and 11 the team will go
to Westhampton to attend the Virginia-
North Carolina Field Hockey Association
Tournament. While there a tentative
plan calls for a game with William and
Mary. November 15 at Sweet Briar.

A freshman tennis tournament is under
way. The excessive heat of the past few
weeks has made swimming a popular
sport. More interest than usual is being
shown in Archery and the tournament
that w;ill be held on November 14 is being
anticipated with much pleasure.

Sweet Briar College

October, ig^j

Class Personals

ACADEMY

Elkanah East Taylor edits a delightful quarterly
magazine of verse, "The Will O' the Wisp." She has
also had several books of her poems published.

Virginia Lazueby O'Hara attended the Fair while
spending some time in Chicago this summer.

Mabel Woolf Williams motored from her home in
Greeley, Colorado, to Chicago this summer and
while there attended the Century of Progress. Marv
Herd Moore visited the Fair during the summer.

Margaret Dalton Keith spent the summer at Roar-
ing Gap, North Carolina. Her daughter Louise, who
is nearly ready to enter Sweet Briar, spent the summer
at Camp Cohechee.

1910

Class Secretary, Annie Powell Hodges (Mrs. Wil-
liam T), Lakewood, Norfolk, Virginia.

Frances Murrell Rickards with her husband, daugh-
ter and son, has spent the summer traveling, visiting
many places in the West and North, and closing the
summer with a cruise to Mexico.

Eugenia Grifhn Burnett visited the Exposition at
Chicago with her son and daughter. Her son entered
the Episcopal High School at Alexandria this fall,
and her daughter is already old enough to begin to
anticipate Sweet Briar.

Annie Cummock Miller, who lives here in Norfolk,
leads a very busy life with her two daughters, fifteen
and seventeen. Annie seems to have taken a drink
from the fountain of youth, for she looks almost as
young as the girls.

I haven't seen Louise Hooper Ewell since the terrific
storm at Virginia Beach, but Frances Rickards told me
that she suffered no great material damage. Louise is
so resourceful I know she will find a way to make the
best of even that storm.

Helen Schulte Tenney, ex '10, has both a son and
daughter in Duke University.

In August w'hen I was visiting in Loudoun County
I had a visit from Margaret Potts Williams, Academy,
and her husband. Margaret and I, who hadn't seen
each other since those very early Sweet Briar days,
spent a long time doing the expected thing, each
assuring the other that she hadn't changed. Finally
we were frank enough to each other to admit that the
other had changed greatly for the better! Margaret
lives in New York but was spending the summer with
her mother in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Nan.

1911

Class Secretary, Josephine Murray Joslin (Mrs. J.
Whitman, Jr.), 3X S. William Street, Johnstown,
New York.

Claudine Griffin Holcomb, ex '11, spent some time
in Chicago this summer and attended the Century of
Progress.

Ruth Uoyd, ex '11, spent some time in Chicago this
summer and while there she attended the Fair.

igii

Class Secretary, Elsie Zaegel Thomas (Mrs. L C),
2.00 Euclid Avenue, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

1913

Class Secretary, Elizabeth Grammer Torrey (Mrs.
Donald F.), 530 Brookhurst Avenue, Narbetli, Penn-
sylvania.

I'm supposed to glean news of you all for four issues
a year. I wish each of you would send me a postal by
the fifteenth of No\ ember, which will be in time for
the December issue. I enjoyed so much the letters and
postals I received I wish I could answer each one, but
I'll try and pass on the news I got. Several came too
late for the June number.

Mary T\ler Cole wrote me from Potomac Beach,
Virginia. Her daughter, Jane, graduated from the
high school there this June. Mary has moved around
so much we lost track of her — please don't escape us
again.

Mayo Thach Kline's friends will be distressed to
hear of her sorrow in the death of her husband, which
occurred June 2.1 in New York City. Mayo and her
two children spent the summer in a cottage near
Frances Richardson Pitcher at Londondern,-, Vermont.

Eugenia Buffington Wolcott writes me that she saw
several old Sweet Briar friends who came to the
Exposition and stopped to see her. She mentioned
Carina Eaglesfield Mortimer, Academy, Eugenia
Griffin Burnett '10, and Claudine Griffin Holcomb, ex
'11. She spent a day on campus this fall.

Our summer was spent at Echo Lake, Pennsylvania.
I was feeling so badly our two boys were each sent to
camp for one month and I went on a rigid diet and rest
regime to get rid of my arthritis. I am much better
but still struggling. Do send me a card by the middle
of November for news for the December number. All
news is interesting.

Cordially,

Bessie Grammer Torrey.

1914

Reunion 1934.

Due to the resignation of your Class Secretary,
which arrived the day we went to press, a new one
will be appointed. Your former Secretary, Henrietta
Washburn, has joined the staff of St. Katharine's
School in Davenport, Iowa.

Bessie Carothers Whayne, ex '14, attended the Fair
while visiting in Chicago this summer.

1915

Class Secretary, Harriet Evans Wychoff (Mrs. G.
Bernard), 3152. S. Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.

Frances Pennypacker spent her summer vacation
attending the Century of Progress.

Jessie Rucker, ex '15, spent the early part of the
summer at the Fair.

1916

Class Secretary, Felecia Patton, Beechmoor
Catlettsburg, Kentucky.

Dear Class of 1516 — The daily dozens of a too tidy
janitor at Sweet Briar sent the last quarter's news
scuttling into the trash basket. Those few but precious
items were bought with a price of a little time, some
energy and lots of gentle persuasion. But fortunately
they are still fresh and spicy for this next quarter and I

October, ig^j

Alumnae News

have luckily mustered a few more newsy bits to tack
on to these. Would that there were a few more but
alas! my pleas this quarter, as of last, brought few
responses.

Connie Russell Chamberlain, the Connie of 1916
running true to form, cleverly submits the following
to its potential and future existence. "I. Louise Ben-
nett, ex room-mate at that. If I don't hear from you in
three months I shall publish what I think of you. The
kindest part of it will be that you are wasted on a
good husband and probably an indifferent cook.
II. Rebecca Stout, Margaret Banister, Lynne Brown
and Rachael Forbush, ex '16, %vhat you think about
me is absolutely untrue. You don't understand the
circumstances."

I should also like to dangle such a threat as Connie
does to Louise in Number I: — Margaret Banister, Jean
Stockdale, Lynne Brown, Antoinette Camp, Rebecca
Stout — if I don't hear from you the next quarter I shall
send you a letter postage due. At least won't you con-
tribute to the agony column ?

Now for real news. Connie's daughter, Betsy, age
12., will be ready for Sweet Briar at 16. Her older son,
Rodman, will go to Williams, and Stephen, age 5, is
not yet concerned w'ith his choice of a college. Connie
reports that she feels that she has written a detailed
descriptionof herself when she records on the censor's
sheet, "C.B. Chamberlain, housewife."
""Ellen Howison Christian writes from Staunton,
"I really have some news for you; at least, it is news
and very thrilling news, from my point of view. Prob-
ably no one else will think much of it. My husband
and I have bought a farm and he is starting a training
kennel for bird dogs and a game farm. There is a
fascinating old house, nearly one hundred years old on
it, badly in need of repair but with wonderful pos-
sibilities. It is situated in the western part of Augusta
Countv, right in one of the valleys of the Alleghany
mountains and includes a boundary of 570 acres."
Ellen's enthusiasm over becoming a farmer's wife and
doing all the things one does as such is most re-
freshing. "I think I want to let the cream rise on the
crocks and skim it off with a ladle instead of having a
separator," etc.

Mary Pennypacker Davis, husband, and three
sturdy sons have just returned to their home in
Orange, New Jersey, after a summer spent at Camp in
New York. Bill and Dick, the two older boys, are in
the first and second grades at school but Jim, the
youngest, is still entertaining his parents at home.

Louise Bennett Lord contends the Lord family
should be crossed off as a total loss as to news but all
of us who were at Sweet Briar during Louise's four
years will heartily enjoy her letter written in the true
Bennett style. "We have lived in the same house in
the same town, Englewood, New Jersey, for ten years.
I have four children, all boys. Bennett, Jimmy, Teddy
and Peter. Bennett and Jimmy were away at school
last winter at the Litchfield School, Litchfield, Con-
necticut. This past summer we have spent at Paris,
Maine (not France), where we have led a truly rural
life. I am afraid this is about all there is to tell about
me and mine. I am sorry not to provide you with any
rich, racy material for the magazine in the confessions
of a True Stories' style but alas — my husband doesn't
run around with his stenographer, I have no fireside
companion, and my children are too little to be called
the younger generation."

In closing let me remind you again. Class of 1916, of
the impending calamity that will befall you if your
response is missing at the next quarter's request for
news. Begin planning now your contribution to
Connie's agony column and mail them to me any time
before November ^5.

Esther Roberts Blatchford, ex '16, Alice Dick
Webster, ex '16, and Helen Browne Hobart, ex '16,
all managed to attend the Fair.

Felecia Patton.

1917

Class Secretary, Virginia Sandmeyer Hudson
(Mrs. John H.), 1007 North Main Street, CarroUton,
Missouri.

Martha Darden Ziesing, accompanied by her
children, spent a month visiting her parents at their
cottage at Virginia Beach.

Polly Bissell Ridler, accompanied by her children,
attended the Fair this summer.

Rachale Lloyd Holton, accompanied by her sons,
also visited the Fair during the summer, as did Helen
Barr Fry, ex '17.

1918

Class Secretary, Margaret McVey, 1417 Grove
Avenue, Richmond.

Louise Case McGuire and Vivienne Barkalow
Breckenridge attended the Century of Progress this
summer, as did Louise Jones Reager, ex '18, and
Dorothy Harrison, ex '18.

Cornelia Carroll Gardner is now living at
Annapolis, Maryland, where her husband is stationed .

1919

Class Secretary, Louise Hammond Skinner (Mrs.
Frederick H.), 333 57th Street, Newport News,
Virginia.

Rosanne Gilmore spent several week-ends this sum-
mer on the island of Ballast in Put-in-Bay. Rachael
Lloyd Holton, '17, and Polly Bissel Ridler, '17, and
their families were with her during the latter part of
the summer.

Elizabeth Hodge Markgraf attended the Exposition
this summer.

1910

Class Secretary, Dorothy Wallace, 4004 Roundtop
Road, Northwood, Baltimore.
Dear Nineteen-Twenties —

During the past year your secretary has had the
pleasure of seeing several of our members and also
other members of the Sweet Briar family. In a little
car I travel around on my way from Indiana to Balti-
more, where I have been teaching chemistry at
Goucher College for the last six years. I enjoy my
work here very much, like the girls, and my associates
in our department, and Baltimore is a very interesting
city. There are also a number of Sweet Briar women
here, and sometime I'll tell you of them.

This spring I found Nancy Hanna in the chemistry
lab at the U. S. Bureau of Standards in Washington.
She runs analyses on various samples of rubber, and
reports to the government just which ones are up to
standard. Nancy doesn't seem to look any fatter,
slimmer or older than she did in 192.0. Maybe we can
account for this through her interest in her work, and
one of her chief recreations. Instead of taking her

Sweet Briar College

October, ig^j

yearly month's vacation all at one time, she takes a
little each month. Nancy "rides to the hounds" out
in Fairfax County, Virginia, not far from Washington.
Of course she is devoted to her horse which she keeps
at a Hunt Club out there, and this sport would surely
keep anyone "in the pink" of condition.

Helen Beeson Comer has been living in MaysviUe,
Kentucky, for over a year. She wrote a most inter-
esting letter telling of her four months old daughter
who "is fast growing up, and plump as a partridge."
She says young Miss Comer seems like a live doll to
her but she supposes "that when she begins to cut
teeth in earnest that beautiful dream will fade, and
she'll be just another baby." Also Helen fears the
baby will be spoiled since she is surrounded by an
adoring grandfather, grandmother, and her impartial
(?) parents. Wouldn't you all like to sec a snapshot of
Helen and her baby? Let's hope she will send us one.

Helen Johnston Jones is a busy person. Sad to relate,
I didn't get to see her, but I talked to her. Helen's son,
six years of age, is one of her main interests and oc-
cupations. But Helen is busy in other ways. She has
completed two years as president of the Junior League,
and is at present active in the Women's organization
for National Prohibition Reform, as well as helping to
organize the Parents' League in Richmond.

Gertrude Kintzing Wiltshire lives in Richmond
also. Luckily she was at home when I stopped for a
minute's chat with her. And her four children were
there, too. Betty Jeane, the oldest, is nine, and surely
resembles Trude. The other three children are boys,
the youngest only two. So you can imagine that time
doesn't hang heavily over "Trude.

Elizabeth Eggleston wasn't home when I stopped
in Hampden-Sidney, Virginia. She was up in New
England in May, and she had been to Florida during
the winter. She is fine and happily busy and interested
in living, as the little "Globe Theatre" of which you
have read in the Alumn.^e News, gives ample evi-
dence. And now she is one of the faculty for a chil-
dren's school just outside Hampden-Sidney. The
folder telling about it sounded so interesting that I
hope it will prove to be a great success.

A letter from Marie Wiener Manz tells of her inter-
esting life in Nice, France. She says, "Here in our
little bookstore I am kept very occupied, but the work
gives me much pleasure. In the winter I teach in a
private school, drilling spoiled American children or
English children in their three R's. Then, too, I teach
English conversation to foreign children, and have
had many delightful experiences in this field. Our two
children are on the beach all day long and are as
healthy as can be. Sometime I hope, in the not very
far future, to visit Sweet Briar and see with my own
eyes what changes have taken place."

Isabel Webb Luff was "interviewed" while we were
in Cleveland. She had been back at Sweet Briar for
Commencement, and I wished I could have stayed
longer to hear of the events at that time. She and
Howard are both fine, and their example should en-
courage some of us spinsters who are wary of the sea
of matrimony.

Mary Virginia Crabbs Shaw was at home one after-
noon this summer when I w-ent over to Crawfords-
viUe. TuUy, aged six, is going to school, and getting
quite grown up. Noble Jr., who is a rosy-cheeked
young blond of two, is a lovely child. He was very
interested in father's roses which were beautiful,
while Tully was busy at the slide and the sand pile.

and his swanky little auto. Mary Virginia is still
interested in helpful community projects just as she
was at Sweet Briar. It is always such a pleasure to be
with M.V. and Noble, and I regret that vacations
seem so full that I don't get to see them more.

Katherine Armstrong Lawrence, ex 'lo, and I failed
to make connections. At the time I hoped to stop in
Chicago to see her my plans were changed. When I
went to Chicago again, Katherine and her husband
were away on a vacation, so I hope to tell you more of
Katherine another time.

Lucille Barrow Turner, ex 'lo, of Lynchburg has
three children to give her food for thought and action.
But the versatile Louise has completed a year as presi-
dent of the Junior League. She had a leading part in
the Follies given last winter, and she has been singing
over the radio for several years.

Now, Twenties, if you will write me something
about yourselves, you can give all of us a great deal of
pleasure. It is quite probable that I shall see some
Sweet Briar people every year, but if I don't see or hear
from you, I'll have to write about those I have seen.
If any of you are going to be in Baltimore or vicinity
please let me know. Or in the summer — Veedersburg,
Indiana is the address. So please help me to make this
a real letter for the members of the class of Twenty.

Dorothy Wallace.
192.I

Class Secretary, Maynette Rozelle Stephenson
(Mrs. James A.), iixo Hillcrest Road, South Bend,
Indiana.

Your secretary would like to thank everyone who
responded to the plea for June items. The fact that our
letter was one of those accidentally burned seems to
have discouraged everyone, for our summer mail has
been light. Please make an effort to send in some news
before November 15.

Mad Shidler Olney of South Bend toured east with
her husband this past summer, visiting her brother,
Arthur, in Philadelphia. When she returned home,
Mike Thompson Wynne spent a few days with her.
Mike drove west with Dorothy Wallace, 'to. Mike
has a young son, Bobby, aged nine and a curly haired
daughter, Alice, aged seven.

Josephine Ahara MacM .Ian and her husband drove
from their home in Chapel Hill to The Century of
Progress.

Dorothy Cerf Bailey, ex 'xi, attended the Fair this
summer as did Marion North Lewin, ex 'xi.

Your secretary is writing this in Boston after a
motor trip to Montreal and Quebec. Before going
home to South Bend both Tim Loney Benson, 'ii, and
Elmyra Pennypacker Cox, '2.0, are going to have a
visitor.

A one year s subscription to "The
Brambler" may be obtained by
sending $x.5o to Mary McCallum
Brambler Circulation Manager,
Sweet Briar, Virginia.

This Ad is sponsored by the
Alumnae Association.

October, i^}j

Alumnae News

1912.

Class Secretary, Burd Dickson Stevenson (Mrs.
Frederick J.), 60S Maple Lane, Shields, Pennsylvania.

Mrs. Maurice Henkels (Helen Anderson to you) sat
herself down and answered our pitiable plea for ne%vs
on moving day — not only nice but noble, I calls it.
Helen and husband (who is a buyer of wool for Forte,
Dupee and Sawyer Co.) are moving from Boston to
the more attractive suburbs. Their address will be 31
Morseland Avenue, Newton Centre, Massachusetts,
and friends are urged to call. The new home sounds
most attractive — a quaint yellow clapboard house in
an apple orchard — and as the Henkels spend their
spare moments antiquing, we can't wait to see the
interior — and Helen. Helen has been teaching
"Methods of Teaching" for two years at Simmons
College, Boston, but is giving up the profession in
June. And for that she gets another star, for we
haven't heard of anyone voluntarily giving up any-
thing that paid money for a long, long time.

Mrs. James Slocum, 1308 West Minnehaha, Park-
way, may mean nothing to some of you ignorant
lassies, but should you go to said Parkway and shout
loudly for Mrs. Slocum — May Earl herself would
appear. Don't do your shouting for a few weeks, be-
cause May, by this time, is on her way to Quebec via
the White Mountains, leaving two small Slocums,
Jimmy (aged 3) and Bobby (one year) parked with
' "Grandma. ' ' Jim Slocum is one of a national group of
wholesale grocers who supply the Red and White
Stores, and we are planning to discover immediately
why he hasn't supplied us with a few on the side.
After all, w-e have our rights — and appetites. May tells
us of a splendid way to initiate new members to Sweet
Briar Clubs — make them President. But why was that
never thought of before?

The beautiful Miss Gertrude (Dally, if your memo-
ries are short) has now completed her second year of
eurythmics and if you want to know she's just as
muscle bound as ever). Eurythmics is a cross between
dancing in the dell a la Lillias Shepherd and a workout
under Miss Gascoigne — it seems to us a thing to keep
away from, but Miss Dell must get something out of
it for she's complained of Charlie Horse every Wednes-
day for the last two years. Also Miss Gertrude has
taken practically every course in Economics at Car-
negie Institute of Technology. Dr. McC could tell
her nothing — well practically nothing. Also she plays
the piano better 'n better. Too many accomplish-
ments, that gal, we're thinking of drowning her. She
visited Fran Simpson Upson, '2.1, not long ago and
one of her (Gert's) beaus sent them both corsages. On
second thought, we'll ask her to visit us instead of
drowning.

Miss Menk is so insistent in her protests that she's
been doing nothing interesting that we are convinced
she is "up to something." We will do a little sleuth-
ing in your interests and give you the dirt in our next.
All she will admit to is working in a gift shop in
Pittsburgh for a short time and visiting Helen Gans,
'13, in Columbus. More later — Hawkshaw is out!

Sadie Morris, believe it or not, is a full fledged
lawyer. She studied law at New York University Law
School and graduated with the degree of J.D., which
means that when she marches at a Sweet Briar Com-
mencement, she will wear the gold tassel cap and the
velvet taffeta robe. We think friend Sadie deserves
about 9,000 cheers. Not onlv have we no velvet taffeta

robe, but we haven't any robe at all — it was borrowed
by some maid for a negligee — have to run one up in
dotted Swiss before we can sneak along behind Sadie.
Not content with the gold tassel, Sadie passed her
State Bar exam the first time and is now associated
with Arthur Garfield Hayes, of Scopes Monkey fame,
at 43 Exchange Place. She is most enthusiastic about
her work, w-hich consists of handling estates, getting
divorces for those who want them, trying cases before
juries, etc. We don't need any divorces, Sadie, but
couldn't we sue somebody for something?

Mierke has been very dramatic lately. She has been
on the board of the Shaker Village Players — Vice-
President in fact — last year she was Secretary, a
glutton for work, that gal. The Shaker Village Players
give three public productions a year and three one-acts
every month. Mierke played a high yella' gal in a one-
act, "The Melancholy Dame," in October. Directed
another one-act in January. In February, she was co-
director of a mystery comedy, "The Wasp's Nest,"
with weird lighting effects and very tricky staging.
Last month the players put on '"Ten Nights in a
Barroom" — cast it Saturday and played it Monday —
believe it or not. And in June Mierke is playing Sara
in Donald Ogden Stuart's "Rebound." Did I say a
glutton for work? Oh yes, this may be old news to
some of you, last year, she and Kay Klumph, '14,
danced in the ballet of the summer opera in Cleveland,
four numbers in "Carmen" and two in "Aida," two
performances of each opera — and six weeks of hard
work before training under Charles Weidman.

Beulah, you know, has been working for several
years at the Children's Bureau in Cleveland, placing
children in good homes. The work must be very inter-
esting and Beulah is a great success. It is alleged that
she gave up the work at one time and decided to sit
down peacefully and enjoy herself, but the Children's
Bureau couldn't get along without her and sent out an
SOS. Beulah came hurrying back and has been there
ever since. Wonder if she still has nightmares — do you
Beul? You'd better answer the next time we write for
news or we will write something about you.

Trot Neidlinger and Pudge bought an old house in
Cohasset, Massachusetts. It's called the Old Corner
House, built in 1746, and what Trot and Pudge per-
sonally did to its interior is miraculous. They've
started now to landscape the yard in a big way — the
yard had apple trees (sounds like a disease) to start
with and they have added stone terraces, lawns,
flower beds, etc. Trot says she wore out a pair of
gloves, planting. The Neidlingers really sound in-
decently energetic to us — even the twins planted ten
lumps of sugar. Pudge is an architect and "architects"
in Boston, but every Fall he coaches hockey for three
months in Princeton, so they get a change of scene.
Smart arrangement. They have three especially elegant
daughters, Mary Ann is about five and the twins,
Sally and Susan, w-ill be four this fall. They are an-
gelic looking and plenty smart.

We are being pressed for news of the Frederick
Stevensons and we have learned that they, too, have
bettered themselves by moving to the suburbs. In
doing so, they exchanged three layers of crooked
concrete steps, an old cherry tree stump and three
locust trees that dropped branches on innocent by-
standers at unexpected moments for three large apple
trees, a cherry tree, a terrace and an antique fountain
(so called). The apple trees have a few holes in them
but thev get properly whitj and smelly at the right

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moment and are quite satisfactory. The Stevensons
have one daughter, Burd Blair, who was three in June,
— a most remarlcabie child.

The above spicy items sound a bit stale, being
written for the June issue. The copy sent at that time
was lost along with the reports from several other
classes; Massey burned them in an attack of neatness.
The fire was a good place for this, no doubt, but
having an extra copy in the home we refuse to rewrite
it.

Alice Guion Babcock was married on September 9
to Mr. Charles I. Simons. They will continue to live in
Columbia, South Carolina.

The York Wilsons (Minnie Long) have seven
children — York II, 9 years; Minnie S; Ale.xander 6;
Eleanor 5, Blackburn 4; Oscar 1; Suzanna 6 months;
and that must surely be the record for 'ii. The Wilsons
have been shuttling back and forth between Rocking-
ham, North Carolina, where they have a cotton mill
and Rock Hill, South Carolina, where they have
another cotton mill, a few months in each place to
give said cotton mills a little first aid during the de-
pression. Editorially speaking, if we had seven
children we would rest in one spot — nor fire nor flood
could move us.

Amey Smythe writes that Lillias Shepherd visited
her the early part of the summer and that Lillias was
expecting to go on to New Hampshire. Amey was
planning to spend most of the summer at her home in
Salem, Virginia, writing and to try for a job in New
York this fall.

The Neidlingers (Trot Walker is Mrs. Neidlinger —
or need I keep reminding you?) have moved from
Cohasset to 41 College Street, Hanover, New Hamp-
shire. Pudge has been made assistant dean at Dart-
mouth College, a large honor. All the work they did
this summer on their Cohasset home will be ap-
preciated by some one else.

The following attended the Fair during the summer,
Clara Hogans Keepers, Agnes Hood White, ex 'xi,
Margaret Haskins Van Fleet, ex '2.2., and Teressa
Emerson Benson, ex 'xi.

192.3

Class Secretary, LaVern McGee Olney (Mrs. Alfred
C, Jr.), S31 H. Avenue, Coronado Beach, California.

Dear '13 : If some of the various children of our class
get "swapped around" please forgive as our June letter
was among those burnt, and as I no longer have those
letters I am a little "hazy" as to the children. Fifteen
answered my cry for help the first time, which was a
third of the class, but only eight responded this time;
heaven help us if that continues!

I think blue ribbons should go to the following
three who answered each time. Ellen Brown taught
English in the Carolina High School in Denton,
Maryland, last year. She was married this year to Mr.
Winfield Trice Nichols. They drove through New
England on their honeymoon, and she expects to con-
tinue her teaching. She is looking forward to a visit
from Helen Richards verv soon.

CHIDNOFF STUDIO

469 FIFTH AVENUE

New York City

Official Photographer for the igj-/. Briar Patch

October, ig^}

Alumnae News

Marie Klooz svas at Sweet Briar and Amiierst last
year, "'cemporarilj- weathering the depression," bat
has taken a house at Katonah, New York, and hopes
to work in New York City. Just before leaving Sweet
Briar she visited Amy Smythe, 'rx, at Salem, Virginia.
Marie was disgusted with herself for being the only
one at Sweet Briar to get chicken-pox for commence-
ment, and was unable to participate in our reunion,
and to see any of the girls who were back.

Nell Leiper Quarterman is living in Atlanta, and as
she was busy entertaining a fellow Junior Leaguer
from Knox^"iUe for the June issue, she got her husband
to write for her that time. (Wish some more of you
would do likewise.) This time she wrote herself,
telling of a uip to Folly Beach, Charleston, South Caro-
lina, where she, her husband and tw-o children, Ellen
Brevard, 5V2 years, and Keith A.xson, Jr., 3 years, took
a cottage for part of the summer.

The five new recruits are Beth Hall Hatcher, who
tells of a three months old daughter bv the same
name. Helen Richards, who has been assistant
librarian at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Petmsyl-
vania, for the past five years, and is back again this
year. This summer she spent her vacation taking a sea
voyage to the West Indies and South America.
Nlargaret Burw-ell Graves dashed to Sweet Briar for
one day during co m mencement, leaving a trained nurse
with her two little girls who had whooping cough.
Later in the summer she and her family drove to
Virginia Beach for a visit, and she was furious to find
later that Kit Hancock Land, husband, young son,
father and mother were there at the same time, and
neither one knew the other w-as there. Margaret also
managed to attend the Fair during the summer.

Louisa Newkirk Steeble wrote from a ranch in
Cody, Wyoming, where she was spending the summer.
She said Sweet Briar was looking ver\" prosperous at
commencement time, and had so many grand im-
provements.

Josephine Bechtel Krugler has moved to Sylvan
Place, Haworth, New Jersey, to live. Accompanied by
her family she spent the summer at Spring Lake, New-
Jersey, where they had taken a cottage.

Here's where the guesswork starts — do hope it is
fairly accurate. Helen Cannon Morris is living in
Altadena, California, and had a trip in the early
spring to La Jolla Beach. Gertrude Geer Bassett drove
to Sweet Briar for May Day, with her husband, sister,
and father, and said it was beautiful. She, likewise,
went back for commencement; lucky girl to have two
trips to Sweet Briar in one year. She has three children,
I think, and Katherine Weiser Ekelund, two or
vict versa. Katherine lives in Pontiac, Michigan, and
wrote that she was much the same except that she
was getting matronly from too many afternoons
around a bridge table. Catherine Zeuch Forster lives
in Minneapolis; am dubious as to her children, but
am sure there is at least one. She wrote that Marjorie
Milligan Bassett, who lives in Minneapolis, was ex-
pecting a visit from her sister Muriel during the sum-
mer. Lvdia Purcell Wilmer's news was dulv urging
every one to return for commencement. Lydia spent
several weeks this summer visiting Virginia Stand-
berrv Schneider at her home in Sisterville. Buffv Tav-
lor Valentine tells of a son and daughter, and that she
knows much less than she did when we graduated in
V3. Buffy has just moved into a new home on Cari.-
Street Road, in Richmond.

Jane Guignard Thompson writes that life in Wal-
halla. South Carolina, is a ver\' quiet, but happv
existence. Lillian Spilman Howard savs that a
husband and two sons keep her hands prett}' full most
of the time. She is living in Knoxville.

Helen MdSIahon did not have much news about
herself from Huntington, West Virginia, but wrote of
Dot Lovett Stevenson, and her five year old son
{shame on you, Dot, for not telling us yourself).
Lona Weber Dowling moved to Dallas, Texas, last
winter and says it's a "far piece" from Cleveland. She
has a five year old son. Edith Miller McClintock is
living in Germantown, w-hich is quite a change after
living in Arkansas for nine vears. She has two sons
and the fact that one of them is old enough to be in
school "simply tloots her."

Everyone wants to know" how I got to California
from New Orleans. Well being married to a naval
officer one is apt to be anywhere at any time. May,
1931, I married a man I met while a senior at Sweet
Briar, and with whom I w-ent to the Final German at
Ann apolis the day after we graduated. We were
stationed at Pensacola, Florida, for one year where he
was an Instructor at the Naval Air Station there. June,
a year ago, we drove across the countr}" to Coronado,
and he is now attached to one of the squadrons on the
aircraft carrier, V . S. S. Saratoga. The squadrons base
here at North Island most of the time; it is a splendid
duty, and we hope to be here a year and a half more.
Last summer we saw some of the Olvmpic games, and
later while in San Francisco drove down to Stockton
and spent a week-end with Peg Turner Brown, '2.0,
and husband — had not seen her since 192.1. New
Year's Day in Los /\ngeles I had a short visit with
Mildred Featherstone, ex '2.3, who was a freshman
with us, and then finished at the Universit}' of
Southern California. I played quite a little golf this
winter with Cornelia Carroll Gardner, 'iS, who was
the first person to greet me at Sweet Briar as a fresh-
man.

A letter from Isabelle Deming Ellis, ex '13, tells of
her ven- interesting life in Colombia, South America.
Her voung son Dick spends most of his time on their
private beach, their house being only a hundred feet
from the water's edge. Incidentally said son speaks
only Spanish, which fond parents think will be an
awfril blow to relatives when they return to the States
shot dy after Christmas.

Alice Knoedler Hickock, ex '2.3, attended the Fair
this simmier.

This is all the news I can get together this time,
tUase ever\-one help out in the future, so we can find
out what ever}-one is doing scattered all over these
United States.

LaVem McGee Olnev.

1924

Remiion 1934.

Class Secretan-, Eleanor Harned i\rp (Mrs. Louis
Croft), 151.5 2.9th Street, Moline, Illinois.
Dear Members of 1924 :

A real catastrophe befell the 1924 .\lumnae letter
last spring lo-'ou all no doubt read about it in the
,\LtrNtN-iE News in Jtme) so with w-hat I have gleaned
drn-ing the summer, I should have a bulging envelope
bearing class personals to Sweet Briar at this time. It
had been many a day since I had experienced such
thrills as I felt when so manv of vou sent me lettets in

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the spring. 1 only hope that I can pass on to you all a
part of the fun I had from them.

Shiney Bodine Mountcastle and her husband are
proud over the addition of a son to their family, Frank
Fisher Mountcastle, Jr. , having been born on April ii.
The Mountcastles live in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and
their first child is Ann, quite like her mother in a
snapshot.

Another class child born in April is Peter Hunt
Gulick, the young son of Helen Rhodes Gulick, ex
'14, and Mr. Gulick of Princeton, New Jersey.

Margaret Henigbaum DeLescaille, ex '14, now of
South Bend, Indiana, visited her parents in Daven-
port, Iowa, during the summer and with her were her
children, Betty Lou, Julie, and the new baby, Jules
Joseph DeLescaille, Jr.

Mary B. Wilson Walker writes that she likes New
York City and enjoys seeing Tom Rose Maury quite
often.

Ruth Durrell Regan, ex '2.4, with her husband and
two children have moved to Long Island to live.

Phyllis Millinger has spent the past year in Paris,
teaching and studying.

Frances Nash Orand wrote most interestingly from
her home in Waco, Texas, of her three daughters,
Jean, Nell and Gail, for whom she is already planning
Sweet Briar careers.

Carolyn Flynn Eley is enthusiastic over the Boston
Alumnae Club. Among those whom she sees at the
meetings are Martha Robertson Harless, ex '13, Jane
Tyler Griffith, Academy, Kay Norris Kelly, '2.6,
Gretchen Orr Staples, '17.

A letter from Dorene Brown Humphrey brings the
news that she and Mr. Humphrev and their five ^'ear

old son are now settled in Kingston, Pennsylvania,
after two years in Mahoney City, a small coal town.

Jean Grant Taylor has been doing some interesting
graduate work in Zoology this past year at the Uni-
versity of Michigan. Her husband, who is connected
with the Botany Department at the University of
Michigan, has had charge of the Botany course at the
Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole for the
summer. Jean and her four year old son accompanied
him east and spent the summer at a cottage at Woods
Hole.

Reports from Mary Rich sound very interesting.
Mary is secretary to four doctors in the Medical Arts
Building in Baltimore. Mary says that she likes her
work tremendously — but doesn't let it interfere with a
trip now and then.

Lorraine McCrillis has been teaching History and
Social Science in the High School in Hackensack,
New Jersey, for the past several years.

Another business woman is our Sue Simrall, who for
three years has been working for her father. President
of the Covington Trust & Banking company at
Covington, Kentucky.

The Raymond Wains (Bernice Hulburd) and their
sons, "Buddy" and Hugh live in Greeley, Colorado,
having moved there during the summer.

Marian Swannell Wright of New Haven, Connecti-
cut, with her husband and small daughter, spent the
summer in the Lake Sunapee region. New Hamp-
shire. Swannee and her husband spent two weeks on
the campus this fall.

Betty Guy, who has worked very hard as Secretary
to the Vice-President in Charge of Research of the
H. H. Robertson Company in Pittsburg, took a

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gorgeous vacation, spending May in Bermuda with
a stopover in New York City on the way home.

Freddy Bernard has for the past three years been at
the University of California at Berkeley, where she is
specializing in teaching Fencing. Freddy wrote me
enroute to the east for the summer. On the way she
was stopping ofFin Chicago for a glimpse of the Cen-
tury of Progress.

I cannot close my letter to you all without men-
tioning something about those of us who live in the
"tall corn country," Dode von Maur Crampton,
Elsie Wood von Maur and myself. We believe that be-
tween us we hold a record — you see we have been
raising children. In the three families there are nine
children, five of them Sweet Briar prospects. We have
often said that we should take a snapshot of the
group for our classmates' approval, but as yet the feat
is still unaccomplished. Dode's three are Gertrude,
Katherine and George — all thriving after a happy
summer at MichiUinde, Michigan; Elsie's are Alice,
Charles and Richard, Jr., a really happy trio; while I
have Louis, Jr., Mary, and Josephine.

Esther Jack Arnold, ex '14, accompanied by Dr.
Arnold, stopped at the college for a day this summer.

Elizabeth Pape attended the Fair this summer.

As the time grows shorter till our tenth reunion,
Dode, Elsie and I often wonder how we can leave our
"cherubs" to take a trip back to Virginia as we did
for the fifth reunion in 1519. We hope that it will be
possible to see you all on campus next spring.
With best wishes,

Eleanor Harned Arp.

192-5

Reunion 1934.

Class Secretary, Jane Becker Clippinger (Mrs. John
C), 402.1 LaCrosse Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Martha McHenry Halter has moved to Zurich,
Switzerland, to live.

Amy Williams Hunter and her husband spent a
delightful summer motoring in England. They first
parked the Child with fond grandparents. They visited
Winchester, Cambridge, 'Westmoreland, and from
there they motored down the entire coast of England
and Wales to Milford-Haven where they spent a day
and night with Dorothy Job Robinson, 'ii. From
there they went on to Ludlow, Salop, where thev
visited Dr. Hunter's parents and arrived in time to
celebrate "Peter's fifth birthday." Amy has been ap-
pointed assistant county director of the Red Cross for
Devon. She is also doing some social case work visit-
ing for the local Council of Social Service and is part
time secretary at a Birth Control Clinic.

Ruth Taylor Franklin and Dorothy Joy Haram, ex
'2.5, were both in Chicago this summer to attend the
Fair.

Your secretary wishes to thank those of you who
responded with news for the June issue and she hopes
that the accident of the fire to those items won't
deter you from further correspondence.

192.6

Reunion 1934.

Class Secretary, Mary Bristol Graham (Mrs.
Lawrence B.), Dorchester Road, East Aurora, New
York.

I regret that I haven't more news for our column
this month. No doubt it is my fault for not getting
out those reminders that we all need, but please
remember me and send in your news before Novem-
ber 2.5.

Wanda Jensch Harris and her husband spent their
vacation in Bayfield, Michigan, stopping one night
enroute at Marj Shepherd's. Enroute they attended
the Fair.

Peg Reinhold writes that she went to Columbia this
summer and "studied as I never have." She has a
position teaching in the Brearley School in New York
this year.

Betty Moore spent the month of August and part of
September with her family at their camp in Maine.
Peg Reinhold drove up over Labor Day.

Ruth Weitzenkorn Ullman with her husband and
small son spent the summer on the Canadian Shore,
which is a popular place with Buffalo people.

A letter from Edna Lee Wood tells of the famous
bridge tournament played at the Woman's University
Club in New York last spring. The news is a bit old
but for those who haven't heard of it I think it will be
interesting. "We had a very splendid team that had
been practicing for weeks, Tom Rose Maury, Lyb
Manning Wade and Wanda, with Sue Jelley Blome
and Mary B. Wilson Walker — a safe five so there'd
always be four, but at the last minute Sue had to go
up to Canada to her Doctor and Mary B. was called
out of town so Edna, shaking in her boots, went up to
pinch hit. Never having even seen a tournament be-
fore you can imagine how I felt, but Lyb was delight-
fully good humored and did her best to cover up my
mistakes and Wanda and Tom did beautifully, and
much to our joy we didn't really disgrace ourselves.
They took the scores of both teams and averaged
them and although we didn't win anything we
weren't at the very bottom. They had eleven college
clubs represented and we came in fifth. Barnard won,
the Women's University Club team second, College
of New Rochelle third. Smith fourth."

Ginny Lee Taylor Tinker sent me a picture of the
Rhumba Dancers in the Junior League Show "How
Dare You!" Wish I could pass it on to show you that
Ginny Lee hasn't changed one bit and is still right
out in the front row of entertainment.

Daisy-Holt Huffman, ex '16, was married on June
15 to Mr. Reynolds Pomeroy of BronxviUe, New
York. They spent their wedding trip in Canada and
returned to BronxviUe for the summer.

Edna Lee Wood is teaching a dramatic class of little
girls about twelve years old at a Settlement House on
First Avenue in New York. She has been doing it since
January.

Nell Atkins writes — "For five years I have been
Head of the demonstration Nursery School under the
department of Child Care and Training at the Univer-
sity of Cincinnati. This year I have had a leave of
absence. I spent the fall visiting in Birmingham,
Richmond and Baltimore. I saw lots of Sweet Briar
girls and we had grand times reminiscing. After
Christmas I went to the University of Chicago and
did some graduate work in Psychology for the wintet
quarter. In September I'll be back at work again.
While in Chicago I attended the Century of Progress.'"

Others in the class who have attended the Fair this
summer are Helen Haseltine, Dorothy Keller, Dorothy
Bailey Hughes, Virginia Mack, Jeanette Hoppinger
Schang and Irma Pritchard Weatherby, ex '2.6.

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Ruth Johnston Bowen, ex '2-6, with Mr. Bowen
visited Anne Barrett Allaire while on a trip through
New England and Canada this summer.

Mary Bristol Graham.

19x7
Reunion 1934.

Class Secretary, Pauline Payne, 2.33 Kevin Place,
Toledo, Ohio.

(Editor's Note: I quote from the letter of your class
secretary to me, "Not much news as no one has
written me. I shall soon be forced to make up news
about various members if they don't write me what
they are doing.")

The class wishes to extend sincerest sympathy to
the family of Lyda Warfield Saunders, who died the
middle of September.

Elise Morley Fink has a son, Peter Morley, born
last June.

Margaret Cramer visited me this summer.

Hilda Harspter is spending the winter at her home
in Toledo. She was unable to return this fall because
of ill health.

Caroline Compton was a counsellor at a camp in
Maryland, Tennessee, this summer.

Among those in the class to attend the Fair were
Emily Jones Hodge, Virginia Plumb Palmer, Eleanor
Albers, Catherine Johnson, Nar Warren Taylor, and
Eleanor Orchard.

Pewee.

19x8
Reunion 1934.

Class Secretary, Helen Davis Mcllrath (Mrs. W.
H.), 518 'West Fourth Street, Muscatine, Iowa.

'Your class secretary has been busy getting married
so the news gathering has been brief. I was married
on July 2.9.

Jane Hardy Bellows, ex 'i8, has moved from New
York City to Buffalo to live.

Elizabeth Joy Porter, ex '2.8, has a son David, Jr.,
born last April 12..

Among those in the class who attended the Century
of Progress were Katherine Brightbill, Katherine
Leadbeater, Grace SoUitt, Louise Harned Ross, Mary
Shidler Olney, Anne Shepherd, Elizabeth Joy
Porter, ex '2.8, and myself.

Helen Davis Mcllrath.

192.9
Reunion 1954.

Class Secretary, Anna Torian, i8oz North Talbott
Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana.

The class of '2.9 extends its deepest sympathy to
Sara Callison Jamison and Jane Callison Smith, whose

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father died last July; and to Amelia HoUis Scott, who
recently lost her brother.

Dorothea Paddock, ex '2.9, was married to Mr.
Robert Rex Seeber, Jr. on September 16. Eleanor
Duvall and Dorothy Darrow were bridesmaids.

Jane 'Wilkinson Banyard, ex '2.9, has a son, Frederick
Parker, born on August 15. Her husband is Staff-
Captain Leslie Banyard of the "Monarch of Ber-
muda," and she invites any "Twenty-niner" going to
Bermuda on his steamer to make herself known to
him. Captain and Mrs. Banyard motored through
England this spring, visiting Captain Banyard's
parents while there.

Lee Sidman Smith has moved to Glen Ridge, New
Jersey. Her address there is 58 Hillside Avenue.

Eleanor Duvall is working on illustrations for a
book of children's Bible stories. She wrote us some
time ago, saying that she had had something else
published, but didn't explain the nature of it. She
spent part of last summer at Parkton, Maryland.

Kate Coe and her sister, Nancy, '30, went to Cali-
fornia this summer and returned through the Panama
Canal.

Gypsy Smith Booth made a tour of the Old Do-
minion State this last June with her husband and
young son.

Ruth Meredith Ferguson was married on September
2. to Mr. Frederick John Smythe and has moved to
Baldwin, New York, to live.

Ella Parr Phillips stopped at the college one day
during the summer.

Among those from the class who attended the Fair
were Sue Brooke, Louise Lutz, Sara Callison Jamison,
Elizabeth Hilton, Helen Schaumleffel Ferrer, and
Virginia Lee Campbell Clinch, ex '2.9.

Louise Lutz has indeed been a credit to the college
and a great help to the many Sweet Briar girls who
were fortunate enough to have her show them the
high lights of the Art Exhibit. She is the representa-
tive for the Sweet Briar Alumnae Association on the
Women's College Board. Members of this board ar-
ranged for the college exhibits that are on display in
Time-Fortune Building, and Sweet Briar is one of the
eighteen women's colleges with an exhibit in this
building.

Belle Brockenborough took a course in one of the
romance languages at Purdue University this summer.

Martha Maupin spent the month of August in
Jamestoen, Rhode Island, visiting relatives.

Emilie Giese Martin has moved to 192.6 Market
Avenue, North, Canton, Ohio, where her husband,
who graduated from the Harvard Law School last
June, is practicing law. Emilie wrote me that she had
seen Kathleen Firestone Tyndall, ex '2.9, and that she
had a darling little son.

"Kay" Lamb, ex '19, is teaching school in Aliance,
Ohio.

Betty Neill is secretary to a doctor in Mount Ver-
non, New York. She went to Havana and Jamaica
this summer and then spent a month visiting Helen
Smith Miller at Albrook Field, Canal Zone. Helen
and her husband are in the States now on leave. They
visited in Chicago and expect to spend some time in
New York before returning to Panama.

Virginia Lee Campbell Clinch, ex '19, is now living
at 172.5 North Monroe Street, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Mitchell Cumnock is working at Lord and Taylor's.
She spent three weeks in Knoxville, Tennessee, visit-
ing her aunt this summer.

October, /p55

Alumnae News

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GREAT COUPON HUNT

for One More
Year

That beautiful rectangle at
the bottom of the page is
reproduced to prove to all
of you the success of our
first year.

We've decided that there
would be no better post-
office address for Colgate-
Palm olive-Peet to mail sim-
ilar checks, than Sweet Briar,
Virginia.

All of this requires renewed
effort on everyone s part, —
but yoa must be in the
habit by this time! Please
just continue mailing every
coupon you can beg, borrow
or steal

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Elizabeth Payne, ex '19, was married on August 19
to Mr. Nelson Williams Carter and has moved to
Hopewell, Virginia, to live.

Mary Lee Shepherd was married on July 19 to Mr.
George Johnston Bradish. Anna Tarian.

1930

Class Secretary, Mary Macdonald, 1503 Duncan
Avenue, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Alice Barber is working for the United Charities in
Chicago.

Jane Callison Smith spent the summer in Lafayette,
Indiana, and went to Chicago to the World's Fair.

Alice Tucker Jones Taylor and her husband have re-
turned from a wedding trip to England, and are at
home in Albany, New York.

Mary Ladd went to the World's Fair this summer.

Merry Curtis has a leave of absence from the Cook
County Bureau of Public Welfare, and will spend the
winter studying at the University of Chicago to com-
plete the academic work for her M.A. degree. She is
majoring in psychiatry.

Eleanor Henderson Smith was in Chicago this sum-
mer, taking in the Century of Progress.

Mary Moss was married to Mr. John Powell, on
August 15, in Baltimore.

Mary Lawrence was married September 6, to Mr.
Lee Sessions in Marietta. Helen Lawrence, '}i, was
her only attendant. They stopped at the college en-
route from the Fair to their home in Marietta.

Sara Meador Little has moved to Anniston, Ala-
bama, to live. Her address is 42.S E. 6th Street.

Alice Leigh was married to Mr. Martin Hutchinson
Caples on June ^4. They are living at 1 12.0 Anna Street,
Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Emma Riely spent the summer in Europe. Her new-
address is Hillcrest, Carey Street Road, Richmond.

Louise Nelson is working in a hospital in Rich-
mond.

Teresa Atkinson went to the World's Fair in July.

Mercer Jackson has announced her engagement to
Mr. Carter Welford. The wedding will take place late
in October.

Mary Huntington was married June 18 to Mr.
Edmund W, Harrison.

Sarah Foote Joiner, ex '30, has a daughter, Amanda
Ann.

Lindsay Prentis Woodroofe and the Rev. Mr.
Woodroofe spent the summer in Detroit and Canada.
They have now returned to Cambridge where Lindsay
will resume her Girl Scout work. She instructs the
Scouts in the principles of dignity and decorum.

Serena Ailes Henry, ex '30, visited Ruth Hasson in
Pittsburgh, this summer.

Betty Boone is working in the law offices of Endi-
cott and Endicott in Atlantic City.

Dougie Lyon is employed in a bank in Philadelphia.

Betty McCrady has made her annual pilgrimage to
Europe.

Agnes Sproul went to Europe this summer with a
group from Richmond.

Ruth Keller, ex '30, raises bull pups and boards
other dogs at her place in North Salem, New York.

Gwen Olcott has returned to Dwight School,
where she coaches the hockey team.

Martha Lambeth, ex '30, is section manager of the
lace department in Macy's.

Amelia Wilson is a laboratory technician at Er-
langer Hospital in Chattanooga.

Harriet Williams Powell has moved to Denver,
Colorado, to live.

Fannie Edmands Thoma and her husband made a
"grand tour" of the northeastern United States this
summer, going to Chicago, Niagara, and Boston,
where they saw Dorothea Paddock Seeber, ex '2.9.
On their way home they stopped in Cincinnati and
saw "Hat" Wiggers, ex '2.9.

Elizabeth Johnston Cook is studying for her M.A.
at Northwestern University this winter. She was one
of the Sweet Briar hostesses for their exhibit in .
Time-Fortune Building.

Others in the class who got to the Fair were
Caroline Maury, Dorothy Hartford McGivern, ex '30,
and Elizabeth Carnes, ex '30.

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Class Secretary, Martha von Briesen, 4436 North
Stowell Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

One very pleasant thing about this job, and I may
say the only real pleasant part of it, is hearing from
one's classmates and ex-classmates, and many thanks
to all of you who responded this time. I sent out 150
cards and received answers from 2.0!

In spite of the dearth of answers, I seem to have
gathered a good deal of news from those who did
write. Marriages take precedence over all other items
this month. My surprise was very great when I re-
ceived an announcement of Ethel Ware's marriage to
Frank Slingluff Rutherford, on July 2.6, in New York.
And that's all I know about it; Ethel's present where-
abouts are unknown to me.

Babs Main also surprised me with the announce-
ment of her marriage to Jacob Cooper of Montclair,
which took place September 3, 1932..

Still another wedding is that of Alice Barrows,
ex'31, of Buffalo, who was married on September 16
to Stephen Francisco, of Little Falls, New Jersey, at
the Barrows' summer home in Thetford, Vermont.
The Franciscos will make their home in Little Falls.
Gertrude Lewis Magavern was one of Al's two atten-
dants and Virginia Quintard and her mother motored
to Thetford to attend the ceremony.

Quinnie, by the way, reports that she is starting her
second knitted dress, in between her duties at a dental
clinic and other Junior League work in Stamford,
which includes editorial work on the local League
News Sheet. Early in the summer she visited Hellie
Sim at Westfield. Hellie was one of the classmates who
visited the Fair this summer. Tillie Jones Shillington
is busy taking care of her son, John Joseph Jr., who
was born on May 9. She says he's a darling and I be-
lieve it! Tillie wrote that Mary Leigh Seaton was
working in a real estate office in Richmond, that is
she was there early in July.

Nancy Worthington, after a summer at Camp
Alleghany, packed her pencils and notebook and went
to Washington, where she is taking a secretarial
course at the Lake School, and she hopes to have
learned enough to be able to get a job about Novem-
ber I. She had a chat with Dot Boyle Charles' sister,
who says that Dot has set up housekeeping in French
Indo-China with two servants who even plan the
meals for her. The heat is so great that they can't
have salads or things that grow above the ground.
The house has to be cleaned thoroughly every week
with Lysol solution to keep it free of cockroaches,
and similar pests. Dottie's husband has just furnished

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artesian water from one of his company's wells for a
swimming pool at the club, so at least they have a
pleasant means of cooling off. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
may possibly be transferred to Paris in January

Heath's was about the most amusing letter which I
had this week; she says, believe it or not, that she
has changed greatly since she was in college ....
calmed down . . . and in the next breath she says she
is suffering from a broken finger acquired while she
was girlishly playing baseball on the beach Labor
Day. Officially, she's not doing a thing, but un-
officially she's having a great time, with sailing, prize-
fights, bridge, assorted reading, arguments, and
German helping to take up her time. A study of
Russian is on her program for the near future.

Anne McRae, '32., answered my card to Elizabeth
to tell me that Elizabeth went to China duting the
summer to be with her parents for a while.

Martha McBroom Shipman enclosed a cute snap-
shot of her son, Franklin L. Jr., at the age of 11 weeks.
She writes that Jane White visited her and Mary
Stewart Kelso Clegg this summer and expects to return
some time this fall. Janet Carr Greer and Elizabeth
Greer, both 'exes, stopped in to see her one day
recently.

Nat Roberts, who came to Milwaukee before I
reached home in June, announces proudly that she
went through the Pabst brewery here. ... I have yet
to get there. From her comes news of the marriage of
Leland Barbee, ex'31, on June 19 to Herbert Wells
Hill. She and her husband are living in Hanover, New
Hampshire, where he is an instructor in histoty at
Dartmouth. Leland is continuing her work in the
Baker Library at Dartmouth, but I don't know what
the work is. Rena Tyroler is working in her father's
store once a week, to earn a little pin money. Nat also
visited "Split" Clark at Timber Lake, where Split
says she has done nothing but get fat and sunburned.

From Gotham comes word from Toole Rotter, who
has completed her second year of work there, with
two promotions. She didn't say, but I guess she's still
at Gimbel's. She spent her vacation at home. The
Plains, "Virginia, and saw Anne Mason Brent Wynn,
Mary B. Lankford, ex'33, and Belle Hancock, '33, at
the Warrenton Horse Show. Here's one for Ripley:
Bet West is reported to have taken on a good deal of
weight and her bones are well covered!

Evelyn Mullen and Nancy Coe visited Marjorie
Webb at her home in Vienna, Maryland, during her
vacation and the three of them drove to EUerson,
Virginia, for a few days in August to visit Margaret
Gillette Newton at her home. Summer Hill. Peg had
planned to go to see Marge, but the hurricane put a
crimp into those plans. Marge has recently been trans-
ferred to the Federal Relief Department in Baltimore,
where her official title is relief officer of the Baltimore
Emergency Relief commission. She says they keep her
very busy and the pay isn't very good, but she enjoys
the work, nevertheless.

Evelyn Mullen is Secretary-Reviser to the School of
Library Science of the University of North Carolina.
She is also enjoying her work very much, she writes,
with Dr. Susan Grey Akers as acting director of the
Library School. Evelyn and her sister, Priscilla, ex'34,
took an automobile trip through Virginia and Mary-
land during Evelyn's vacation. She saw Dorothy
Sedgwick and Katherine Taylor, both ex'31, at Vir-
ginia Beach before she went on to visit Marjorie Webb.

I knew I had two more weddings to announce! Mary
Frances Riheldaffer was married on July 5 to Thomas
Cary Kuhn, and they are living at Homestead, Penn-
sylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, where she is looking
forward to becoming a member of the Sweet Briar
Club. Nancy Gaines, ex 31, was married on September
15 to Mr. Gustave Jaeger of White Plains. Janet Mc-
Gregor, ex'33, was one of the bridesmaids.

Jane Tucker Ferrell is now living in Passaic, New
Jersey. She writes that Ellen Eskridge is teaching
again at Haymarket, Virginia, and Mary Cannaday
has been attending school in Richmond for the last
six months.

Beth Conover Grattan was another who sent in
some interesting news about various people. The
Cleggs (Stuartie, Joe, and Caroline) spent part of the
summer at the Clegg summer home at Black Island,
Ontario. Aggie Cleveland went to the Fair, and so did
Beth, who met her mother and father there and had a
grand time.

Evelyn Hagler, ex'31, is a home economist fot